CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF STATEMENTS.
SIMPLE SENTENCES.
Division according to number of statements.
338. But the division of sentences most necessary to analysis is the division, not according to the form in which a thought is put, but according to how many statements there are.
The one we shall consider first is the simple sentence.
Definition.
339. A simple sentence is one which contains a single statement, question, or command: for example, "The quality of mercy is not strained;" "What wouldst thou do, old man?" "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."
340. Every sentence must contain two parts,—a subject and a predicate.
Definition: Predicate.