Learn English Grammar: The Sentence
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2014
- Do you know how to build a sentence in English? In this lesson, you will learn the basic parts of a simple sentence, or independent clause. Knowing this will make it easier to understand any sentence in written English. Understanding how these different parts of a sentence work together to form meaning will help you write better in English. The knowledge in this lesson is essential for any 'Independent User' or 'Proficient User' of English. Quiz yourself here: www.engvid.com/english-grammar...
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Hi again. I'm Adam. Welcome back to www.engvid.com. Today I have a very important lesson, I think, for all of you that will help you very much with your reading, but especially your writing skills. Okay?
Today we're going to look at the sentence. What is a sentence? Now, I know that all of you are saying: "Well, we know what a sentence is. We've learned this a thousand times before." Right? I know what you've learned and I know what you haven't learned, many of you; some of you have, of course. The sentence has a very basic structure, there's a very basic component that must be involved or included in a sentence, and a lot of grammar teachers, a lot of English teachers don't teach this. Okay? All of you, I'm sure have by now heard of "SVO", but have you heard of "SVsC"? Have you heard of "SVC"? Maybe yes, maybe no. But I'm sure a lot of you are going: "What? I've never heard of these things before." Well, we're going to talk about this in one second.
Before we talk about a sentence, we have to talk about a clause. Now, what is a clause? I'm sure you've heard this word before as well, but just in case, a clause is any subject, verb combination. It's a group of words that must include a subject and a verb. Now, also very important to remember: it must be a tense verb, meaning that it must take a time; past, present, future. Okay? No base verb, no infinitive verb. So that is a clause. Now, there are two types of clauses. Okay? We have independent clauses and we have dependent clauses. The... These are sometimes called subordinate clauses. Now, every sentence in English to be a grammatically correct sentence must have an independent clause. It doesn't need a dependent clause, but it could have one. The independent clause could include a dependent clause as the subject or object. We'll talk about that after.
So an independent clause has a subject and a verb, and it can stand by itself. It can contain a complete idea by itself. Okay? So, technically, the shortest sentence you can have in English will be a... Will be an independent clause with a subject and verb. What is the absolute shortest sentence that you can think of? Think of a sentence, the shortest you can possibly make it. Okay? Here's an example: "Go!" Is this a complete English sentence? Yes. Why? Because it contains an independent clause. Where? We have the implied subject: "you" and the tense verb: "go", the imperative tense "go". So this your basic English sentence.
Now, we have three other types, three basic types and we can of course play with these after. Subject, verb, object. Some independent clauses must have an object, we'll talk about that in a second. Excuse me. Subject, verb, subject complement. Some sentences must have a subject complement. Subject, verb, complement. Okay? We're going to talk about each of these in a moment. I have the "A" here because quite often, this complement is actually an adverb phrase or an adverbial. We'll talk about that in a second.
So your basic sentence can be any one of these three. Now, the reason we're looking at this... All these structures is because once you understand what must be contained in a sentence, then you can read any English sentence out there that is grammatically correct and be able to understand the main idea of that sentence. Okay? So let's start with "SVO".
Okay, let's look at our "SVO" type of independent clause: subject, verb, object. Now, first, what is an object? Well, we have two types of objects to talk about. We have the direct object, we have the indirect object. Now, the thing to understand is that the object always answers a question about the verb, it completes the meaning of the verb by asking the questions: "What?" or: "Who?" Now, keep in mind that technically, it's: "Whom?" But if you say: "Who?" I'll let it go this time. Okay? Formal academic writing, "Whom?", "Whom?", "Whom?" IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, all that - "Whom?" not: "Who?" In the object position. But the direct object answers: "What?" or: "Who?" about the verb. Okay? We'll get back to that.
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Hello Adam, I'm from Brazil and I've been an English teacher for 18 years . I love teaching grammar, and although that's not the main focus of my teaching, I can't conceive good learning of a language without learning how to organize your ideas in the way you taught there, i.e. in a well organized structure. I really enjoy teaching my students that and I believe it helps a lot. Your video is really great and I'm going to show it to my students today. Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video. I appreciate it very much. Maria - Brazil
Dear teacher Adam,
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Keep going!
Warmest Regards,
Abdelmonim Ali
English as a Foreign Language Teacher in the Sudan
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Thank you Adam for teaching us how to structure a grammatically correct sentence in English, it really helped.
Hello teacher Adam! I'm a Brazilian student and as you should know, such as most of the Brazilian students, I make many mistakes with sentence structure (I think it is because the Portugues structure) and your video helped me a lot with this problem!
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Yes same here
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I like how you broke down the different components of sentence structure.
I have an English syntax test tomorrow. This video was very helpful. Thank you!
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Thanks!
This is such an important lesson. Sentence structure is often misunderstood. I've begun to wonder if it is still being taught.
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very clear and helpful for us who are going to take IELTS /TOEFL..many thanks...and more power
I'll show this to my English students. Thanks for your videos. Cheers from Brazil!
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best English teacher Ive ever seen - thanks for your lessons Adam
ikarupadly Teacher of English, he is Canadian ;)
ikarupadly YOU FORGOT THE PERIOD AT THE END OF YOUR SENTENCE!!!!!!!!
You missed a comma.
Thank you very much for this video. Despite the video could be confusing for those who doesn't familier with clause topic, I've found it as a great opportunity to rememeber all these terms SVOC :) and clauses as well.
Thank you very much again.
The lesson help me to complete and organise my knowledge about sentences. I appreciate it!
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Wow, that was very useful! Now I understand the logic and can build parallels with the grammar of my mother language. Better than read several chapters) Will resume watching you videos, reading books and broadening my view on English! Thank you so much!
Wish you all the best,
Lera
Very,very good lesson with lots of information.Thank u for this !
For the first time in my life, I can say that you're the ONLY teacher that can keep me awake while learning English grammar.
Thanks 😊
This video gives me a very good idea about complement. I was looking for this kind of explanation and now I get it. Thanks Adam.
Hello I just want to say this you were a big help with my writing .
Now I can hand homework to my teacher and she always gives me 4s and 3s.
So a big thanks to you
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I love you so much Adam… This makes sense for me about English sentences.
Dear Teacher. Thank you so much for your important lesson. I think I will be improved my writing skill soon. With best regards.
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Thanks Adam, this lesson is absolutely important for every English Crammer learning. Is there any related lessons about SVO.?
Adam sir, thank you for everything.
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THANK YOU I WISH YOU WERE MY TEACHER IN MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS THIS REALLY HELPS MAN
Same here
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Text speak such as "btw" should only be used when actually texting on a cell phone. Such acronyms are not appropriate anywhere else.
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I love your explaning
I still can't wrap my head around the fact that such a crucial part of grammatics as sentence structure is often overlooked in studying books. Thanks you so much for your commitment to help other people!
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A great explanation on what seems to be pretty simply!
Thanks Adam, this lesson helps me a-lot better in writing.
time to starting grammaring betterer
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Teacher I understood the explanation. When I begun watching this kind of videos I thought I would never understtand what teachers said because almost all of them talk very fast, but the time is passing by and I understand them much better each day. I use waching every lesson several times, that way, my ears are getting used to hear.
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You always unique
Very articulate and informed teaching! One suggestion: indicate the common misconception or error that a predicate nominal is confused with a direct object.
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I got a perfect score on the quiz. Not bad for a native speaker! :)
what accent did you use?
because your voice is very clear to me, and I can understand what you say totally
riza farhan same to me...
He already said in 8:45
I thought it was just example sentence
riza farhan me too
Tellal Jugurtha me too too . very nice
Very useful content and precise explanations makes him watchable again and again.
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>Worst spanish grammar than english.
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I know how to write, but I forgot the name of of sentence structures. Thank you! This was great!
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Hi, Prof Adam, one more excellent grammar class! The sentence “It is raining” is another example of a simple independente clause? Thank you.
He's so Canadian that he says: "excuse me" when he clears his throat.
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My Grammar class is getting started next week, and I am honored to have discovered your channel, sir.
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Heyy Adam , I'm from Brazil and I love your videos, thanks for teaching so well !
i just start watching you ,hope you are continue doing it i learn alot today.
thank you
Is this correct?
"She doesn't know yet but she’s gonna save the world today!"
If not, correct please.
I wan't to make a typography poster and i wan't to use this sentence.
Just change it to "she doesn't know it yet..."
"Think about the beaver, it's always going to be about the beaver..."
Hi, Adam. My name's Ubiraci, from Brazil. First of all, I'd like to congratulate you on your videos. You're clear on your explanations. You've got very good stuff here. Do you have any video(s) on how to diagram sentences? I don't think that's used nowadays in schools across Canada and USA, are they?
It's fruitful video i would like to thank you a bunch for your help because there are many people need such help👏
13:53 Like and I'll watch the end of the class.