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Most of the sentences we construct refer to Actions, thoughts or attitudes carried out by someone or describe circumstances of the world around us.
This means that two main components or members can usually be identified in sentences:
- Predicate. It contains the verb, which expresses the action.
- Subject. It contains the noun, which expresses who performs the action.
Depending on the presence or absence of these two structures, in syntax sentences can be divided into bimembres (two members) or uniomembres (one member).
Bimembres prayers
The two-member sentences are those that contain the two members: the Subject and the Predicate. For example: Juana was late. (where "Juana" is the Subject and "arrived late" is the Predicate)
In addition to the predicate containing the verb and the subject containing the noun, within each of these structures other elements can be found that add information. For example: direct modifier, indirect modifier (in the subject), circumstantial, direct object (in the predicate)
On certain occasions the subject is not named, but it is understood. In these cases, it is also about two-member sentences because the subject is present in the sentence but in a tacit way. That is why it is called the tacit subject. The speech acts are full of sentences with unspoken subjects, since communication would become very tedious and repetitive if the protagonists of the events were being named all the time. For example: We went to the concert this afternoon. (Tacit Subject: us)
Passive voice sentences are also bimembres, but in them there is a modification of the usual structure by which the direct object comes to the fore as a patient subject, and the verb is preserved but in relation to another agent (agent complement) which can be named or omitted. For example: The notes were turned in by the teacher.
Examples of bimembres sentences
| I thank everyone for committing themselves. |
| Last year he said the exact opposite. |
| Have no doubts. |
| I am selling a car. |
| How many more years will everything stay the same? |
| Spring won't be the same without you. |
| The media often lie. |
| The teacher does not explain the derivatives well. |
| Wait for me one more time. |
| The weather is rainy. |
| The streets of this city remind me of my father. |
| I don't see the emergency exit. |
| Your daughter is really very beautiful. |
| Who is burned with milk, sees a cow and cries. |
| I haven't seen him since last month. |
| I have to tell you the truth. |
| You would have warned before! |
| Finally, you can get the scholarship. |
| It was the most beautiful vacation I had. |
| We will see you next week. |
The single sentences are those in which the two components cannot be recognized, as they are simple expressions that express a feeling, an emotion, a courtesy or that describe a fact of reality, but that do not involve actions directly associated with individuals.
They are also unimembres impersonal sentences, including those that describe climatic phenomena (Tomorrow will rain), and those that are built with the verb have or do, which are invariable because they always go in the third person singular (There is something strange about you).
Examples of single sentences
| It was raining heavily. |
| Yes sir. |
| There is no place for us. |
| It is known about us. |
| On sale. |
| Stop there! |
| Do you have to say it so many times? |
| It snows like it hasn't in decades. |
| A long cold winter. |
| Abra Cadabra! |
| A complicated path. |
| Thank you! |
| There was a very strange climate. |
| It blizzards very annoyingly. |
| Greetings. |
| All right! |
| It will be very cold. |
| Good Morning. |
| A big hug. |
| There is a dog on the sidewalk. |
