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PARTS OF THE SENTENCE (PREDICATE (Types (compound (verbal (modal (shows…

- - - - can be only verbal, expressed by a finite verb in a synthetic or analytical form. It generally denotes an action: sometimes, however, it denotes a state which is represented as an action
    - - nominal
        
        denotes the state or quality of the person or thing expressed by the subject or the class of persons or things to which this person or thing belongs
      - verbal
        
        modal
        
        shows whether the action expressed by a non-finite form of the verb is considered as possible, impossible, obligatory, necessary, desirable, etc. These shades of meaning are expressed by the first component of the predicate
        
        aspective
        
        expresses the beginning, repetition, duration, or cessation of the action expressed by the non-finite form of the verb
      - consists of two parts: (a) a finite verb and (b) some other part of speech
- - - - consists of two components linked by secondary predication
    - - Sentences beginning with it and there, which are used to move the subject closer to the rhematic final position and thus emphasizing it
    - - expressed by a single notional word or a non-clausal combination of words
    - - a finite clause possessing primary predication