Simple sentence

According to their meaning and word order, sentences can be divided into four classes - assertive, imperative, interrogative and exclamatory. It is also possible to classify sentences into four different kinds according to their clause structure. These are - simple, compound, complex and compound-complex.

The simple sentence

Read the following sentences.

• Alice (subject) is a journalist (predicate).
• They (subject) have a house in the city (predicate).
• The school (subject) reopens on Monday (predicate).

These sentences have only one subject and one predicate each.

Sentences of this kind are called simple sentences. A simple sentence has only one subject and one predicate.

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Complex sentence
Compound sentence
Compound-complex sentence