| Subject: | To command is his ambition. |
| Predicated noun: | To know is to act. |
| Object of verb: | I prefer to travel slowly. |
| After nouns: | We have work to do. |
| After verbs: | He failed to pass his examinations. |
| He seemed to be in trouble. | |
| Children had better be silent. | |
| After verbs (with noun or pronoun subject): | Our neighbors helped us move. |
| After adjectives: | They are glad to hear the news. |
| He is so foolish as to believe the tale. |
Conjunctions
It is often necessary or desirable to join together two or more similar words, elements, or clauses in a sentence. Two nouns constituting the subject, for example, may have the same assertion made about them.
Time and tide wait for no man.
And, which joins time and tide, is a conjunction.
Two adjectives, two verbs, two adverbs, two prepositional phrases, or two clauses may be joined together with a conjunction.
The flag is colored red and blue.
Time came and went.
Men and women laughed and cried.
The rains descended, and the floods came.