hello students welcome back to the English Dannie channel I'm Don and I've got something
for more advanced students today to increase your ability to express yourself in English
sentences are you ready okay so welcome back to our subscribers and if you're new here why
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now today I'm going to talk about one of the four main sentence types that we have in English it's
called the simple sentence but it isn't always very simple I'll explain how in a minute in
English a simple sentence expresses one main idea it has a subject and a verb and it might have an
object or compliment for example mom called the subject mom and verb call in the past tense mom
called I like pizza subject I and a verb like and in this case an object pizza object of the
verb like explaining what it is you like English is easy subject English verb is and in this case
a compliment knowing what that verb of identity is easy English is easy we went to the store subject
we verb go in the past tense so went we went and then an object phrase to the store explaining
where we went we went to the store in a later video I'll explain more complex sentence forms
where a sentence can have more than one subject or verb but for now let's stick with understanding
the simple sentence first alright so each part of a simple sentence can be expanded or compounded to
use a more official term for it and one of the most common words to compound part of a simple
sentence is the word and let's take our example sentence mom called we can compound the subject
like this mom and dad called the subject is now a compound mom and dad but it's still a simple
sentence form because it's the subject and verb we can expand the verb the same way mom called
and said hello so in this case mom did two things and we compounded that verb called and said using
the word and and we could compound an object or a compliment in the same way I like pizza and
hamburgers English is easy and fun okay see how that works now here's another example the Chiefs
and the 49ers played in the Super Bowl so what's the subject of that sentence well the subject is
a compound in this case two football teams the chiefs and the 49ers they were compound they're
compounded using the word and' and the verb was played play in the past tense all right and the
subject under the object of that sentence was in the Super Bowl giving us information about where
they played or in what they played what event you can also have more than one compounded part
of a simple sentence so you could say mom and dad called and said hello so in this case the subject
was compounded mom and dad and the verb called and said you and I like pizza and hamburgers we
compounded the subject you and I and we compounded the object pizza and hamburgers all right so that
was our subject you and I and our object pizza and hamburgers all of these sentences remain
simple sentences right there's still just the basic form of subject verb complement the fact
that one or more parts of those is compounded doesn't change the underlying structure of the
sentence okay now let's add one more detail you can compound the subject or the verb or
the object or the compliment with other words not just and for example you can use the words or or
but so do you like pizza or hamburgers this is a question sentence but it's still using a simple
sentence structure the word order change to make it a question but the underlying structure of the
sentence is the same we have a subject you and a verb like and we have a compound you which is
pizza or hamburgers mom or dad will call you again we have a compounded subject here which is mom or
dad and we have a verb in the future tense we'll call and then we have an object you they will call
you so I like pizza but not hamburgers okay here's an example of a compound using but this but not
that again the structure of the sentence is the same subject I verb like object pizza hamburgers
but combined using but not okay so uh you can also say the sentence in another way I like pizza but
I don't like hamburgers and then with that the structure in the sentence does change and I'll
talk about that in a later video we're not talking about compound sentences but for now let's stick
with simple sentence here are some other examples and try to guess what the subject verb and object
or complement of these sentences is okay first one first we walked french fries and soda which
part was compounded there well it was the object the verb we I'm sorry the object of the subject we
and the verb want and the object compounded French fries and soda they are going to Italy and France
which part was compounded it was the object again we is the subject our going is the verb and Italy
and France is the object compounded using and my friends and I work downtown which part was
compounded there in this case the subject my friends and I the verb was work and object was
downtown summer came and went quickly which part was compounded there this time it was the verb
the subject was summer and the verb was came and went and then quickly is an adverb modifying the
verb giving us more information about it telling us how it came and went and the fact that there's
an adverb in there again doesn't really change the underlying structure of the sentence we'll talk
more about adverbs in another video my wife and I went and saw a new movie which part was compounded
there in this case it was the subject and the verb my wife and I went and saw and then a new movie is
the object try making your own simple sentences in the comment section below practice compounding
subjects verbs objects give it a try and we'll check out some of your examples and then in a
later video we'll talk about more complex sentence forms in fact one example is the sentence called
the compound sentence and the complex sentence and then a compound-complex sentence and those
four types are the main types but we'll talk about that in a later video see you there
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