Primary and secondary parts of the speech

SIMPLE PREDICATE

• The simple predicate is the main verb in the predicate that tells what the subject does.

Example: My father fixed the car.

COMPOUND SUBJECT and COMPOUND PREDICATE

• A sentence may have a compound subject– a simple subject consisting of more than one noun or pronoun– as in this examples:

*Team pennants, rock posters and family photographs covered the boy`s bedroom walls.

*Her uncle and she walked slowly through the lnuit art gallery and admired the powerful sculptures exhibited there.

The second sentence above features a compound predicate, a predicate that includes more than one verb pertaining to the same subject( in this case, “walked” and “admired”).

THE SECONDARY PARTS OF THE SENTENCE

• The secondary parts of the sentence depend on the main parts. According to the traditional approach the secondary parts are: the object, the attribute, the adverbial modifier.
• The Object is a secondary part of the sentence which completes a verb or sometimes an adjective and denotes state or thing. E.g. He closed the door.
• The object cab be:
• a) direct which shows a person or a thing directly affected by the action. (I helped my brother.):
• b) indirect which shows to whom the action is directed, (for or to whom) - She gave him an interesting book to read;
• c)prepositional- The noun (or pronoun) governed by a preposition (i.e., words like "in," "on," "at," "by," "near") is known as the object of a preposition.-Lee lives near Brighton. He lives among us.

ATTRIBUTE

• The Attribute is a secondary part of the sentence which qualifies a noun, a pronoun, or any other part of speech. E.g. She is a beautiful girl.
• The attribute is a secondary member of the sentence. It characterises person or non-person expressed by the heardword either from the point of view of quality, quantity or from the point of view of the situation. The attribute is always subordinated to its headword.
• Kinds of attributes
• The attribute of a noun may be an adjective, an article, a pronoun, a participle, an infinitive or a phrase.