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Lecture 1 Sentence Structure 1.1 The construction of “subject + predicate” and sentence analysis As has been pointed out before, the clause or the simple sentence is structurally a sequence of phrases and logically a construction of subject + predicate. That is to say, the clause or the simple sentence is not just an agglomeration of phrases; it is a group of phrases organized into a construction of subject + predicate. 1) Subject and predicate A full-fledged clause can generally be divided into two parts: the subject and the predicate. The subject is the topic or theme of the sentence, wh