Articulation of the sentence

Articulation of the sentence. The complete sense expressed in a sentence can be presented articulated in related members (subject and predicate).

Summary

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• 1 Subject and predicate
• 2 Articulations of the subject.
• 3 There are two types of subject
• 4 A preposition as the subject of the sentence
• 5 The WhoHeader
• 6 The article with substantive propositions
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Subject and predicate

Predicate is what is said (preached) in prayer; subject what is said (or the one about whom it is said): The Moon (subject) in the sea shines (predicate). Something is said about the moon, and that is why “the moon” is the subject; what is said is that it shimmers in the sea, and that is why ¨in the sea it shines ¨ is the predicate.

The subject is sometimes omitted when it is a personal pronoun: “I don’t see anything”. When several sentences follow each other forming an explanation or a short story about the same subject (person or thing), the subject can also be silenced after the first sentence: ¨ As soon as Pepita felt the noise and raised her eyes and saw us, she got up, He left the sewing he was carrying and began to look at us ”(Valera).

Articulations of the subject.

The subject can be formed by a noun with or without article: The Moon in the sea shines; “Civilization is spirit”. Many times a noun is not enough by itself to express the subject with all the notes that are of interest, and then it receives extensions or determinations of meaning. in these articulated expressions the basic noun is called nucleus and the additions that expand or refine its meaning are called complements. The simplest ways to expand or specify the meaning are as follows:

1. a) Noun with adjective: ¨The full moonlights up the field¨; “Modern civilizationhas not made man happier”.
2. b) Noun with a preposition and another noun: ¨The world’s civilization is indanger ¨A man without conscienceis always dangerous ¨.
3. c) Nouns in apposition: ¨Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,is the largest Spanish-speaking city¨.
4. d) Two nouns united by conjunction: ¨the hunter and his dogwent forward ¨.

In the full moon ¨The moon¨ is the nucleus or base of the construction and ¨full “is its complement . In the civilization of the world, ” civilization “is the nucleus or base and” of the world “is its complement: This complement It consists of two parts: the preposition and its term . The noun that follows the preposition is called a term .

The apposition complement, unlike the preposition complement, names the same object as the nucleus or basic noun, although in a different way: ¨Augustus, first emperor of Rome , died in the year 14 of the Christian era¨ .

When the subject consists of two nouns united by conjunction, the first is neither the nucleus of the second nor the second complement of the first: both form a series in which they are grammatically equivalent: ¨Juan and Antonio have arrived¨.

The complements of the nouns can receive complements to expand or specify their meaning:

1. a) The adjective can be complemented by an adverb: ¨A light that is too brightblinds the eyes¨. The adjective can be complemented with a preposition and noun: ¨Houses lacking light and airare unhealthy¨.
2. b) The noun that follows the preposition can also be complemented with the normal complemenetos of the noun: ¨The civilization of the modern world is indanger ¨; ¨A man without conscience of his dutyis harmful to society

There are two types of subject

• The direct subject

The direct subject is who is being talked about or what is being talked about and can be found directly in the sentence.

Luis is very strong.

• = Subject = Luis
• = predicate = is very strong
• The morphological subject
• The morphological subject is implicit, it is not seen but it is known that it is there.

I’m hungry

• = subject = “I”
• = predicate = I’m hungry

A preposition as the subject of the sentence

In ¨That I do not care¨, the subject is That, the predicate does not matter to me and the subject that you tell them, since it is what I do not care about. Other examples: ¨ (That the earth moves around the sun is something that has been ascertained. ¨ ¨ It is not true (that Juan has told you) ¨.

The propositions of the infinitive are very frequent in this profession of subject : ¨I like (to play ball) ¨. ¨He is interested above all (traveling and seeing new things) ¨.

In each example the subject is enclosed in parentheses.

The infinitive is the substantive form of the verb, and has the double faculty of exercising the office of noun in the sentence and of receiving the verb’s own complements (direct, indirect and circumstantial). Therefore, the infinitive, alone or with complements, forms a proposition.

The one who header

Any kind of propositions may occasionally be subject, but other use and ease are the infinitive (do not care to speak) and led by it : I do not care to tell him. This that is not relative, it does not refer to any precedent, nor does any role in his proposal subject or complement. Although this one that does not have the office of conjunctions, it is usually called that conjunction , to distinguish it from that relative. Bello calls it that advertizing. The important thing for analysis is clearly distinguished from the that relative. The one Relative refers to an antecedent, adopts the meaning of it and plays in the relative proposition the office of subject or complement.

The that anunciativo or header of substantive propositions (I do not care who tell) is a sign that the proposition follows it is substantive, that is, that it all works in prayer as a noun. The whole sentence is “I don’t care if you tell him”; the predicate “I don’t care” what I don’t care about, that is, the subject (which always has the function of a noun), “let it be told”. In this proposition subject, the one that is a sign that heads it to indicate that it is substantive.

The article with substantive propositions

Sometimes the subject proposition carries the article el, like common nouns. Father Feijoo says of the Spanish rabbis: ¨The fact that they erred in belief] is not the fault of the weather, since getting this right depends entirely on divine grace. The fact that they were endowed with a unique talent to explain Sacred Scripture in their own way redounds to the applause of the country ”.

There are three sentences here whose respective subjects are enclosed in square brackets. The predicate of the first is “it is not the fault of the weather” and its subject, “the one who erred in the crencia”. The predicate of the second is “depends entirely on divine grace”, and its subject, “getting this part right”. the predicate of the third is ¨redunda in applause from the homeland¨, and its subject is this whole long and complex proposition: ¨ That they were endowed with a singular talent to explain Sacred Scripture in their own way ¨.

The three subjects are made up of propositions and all three have the one who is the headline or the announcer. This it is the sign that the proposition is substantive. The three propositions also carry an article. The article as a normal companion of nouns, reinforces the substantive character of the proposition. No matter how long and complex the subject proposition may be, the article makes it feel with special notoriety as a unit with the office of a noun. When the substantive propositions are not the subject of the sentence, it is rare that they carry the article: ¨ He had to make an effort to forgive him who would have called him cursilona (Galdós)