Communication Skills

1.3.1.Sentence Structure

S: substantive, subject (noun/pronoun) – (who/which)

V: verb, predicate – action

O: object – (whom, what)

A: adjunct (answer to ‘how’, ‘when’, ‘where’ etc.)

C: complement ( a word which completes the meaning of verbs of incomplete predication, like ‘to be’ (am, is, was, were, will be etc.), ‘appear’, ‘look’, ‘elect’, ‘appoint’, ‘become’ etc.

Note : A complement is either a noun or an adjective.

Example:

1.Raju is good (adjective complement)

2.Raju is a doctor. (noun complement)

Sentence Table: Example

Subject	Verb	Object
Raju	buys	milk
Ram	sells	tea
Kala	drinks	juice