{"id":74469,"date":"2020-05-19T04:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74469"},"modified":"2020-05-19T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:48:12","slug":"simple-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/simple-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to their meaning and word order, sentences can be divided into four classes \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/kinds-of-sentences\/\"><b>assertive, imperative, interrogative<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>exclamatory<\/b><\/a>. It is also possible to classify sentences into four different kinds according to their clause structure. These are \u2013\u00a0<b>simple, <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/compound-sentences\/\">compound<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/complex-sentences\/\">complex<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>compound-complex<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>The simple sentence<\/h2>\n<p>Read the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice is a journalist.<\/li>\n<li>They have a house in the city.<\/li>\n<li>The school reopens on Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These sentences have only one subject and one <a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/how-to-identify-verbs\/\">verb<\/a> each.<\/p>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"420\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Subject<\/span><\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Predicate<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alice<br \/>\nThey<br \/>\nThe school<\/td>\n<td>is a journalist.<br \/>\nhave a house in the city.<br \/>\nreopens on Monday.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sentences of this kind are called\u00a0<b>simple sentences<\/b>. A simple sentence has only one subject and one predicate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to their meaning and word order, sentences can be divided into four classes \u2013\u00a0assertive, imperative, interrogative\u00a0and\u00a0exclamatory. It is also possible to classify sentences into four different kinds according to their clause structure. These&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[221,2644,2898],"class_list":["post-74469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-kinds-of-sentences","tag-simple-sentence","tag-what-is-a-simple-sentence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74470,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74469\/revisions\/74470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}