For the correct use of many rules of syntax and a punctuation it is necessary to know how to find an offer basis. Similar information is included into the school program, however it can be forgotten over time. In this case use the existing techniques for search of sentence parts.
Instruction
1. The basis of the offer is formed by his main members - a subject and a predicate. At the majority of offers there are both these elements, however also the lack of one of them is admissible.
2. Find a subject in the offer. It can be expressed not only by a noun, but also other parts of speech - a personal, interrogative or negative pronoun, a numeral, a proper name and in rare instances even a verb. At the same time the subject surely has to stand in the Nominative case, that is answer the questions "who?", "that"?, and in a case with a verb - in an initial form. If you see a set phrase, one of elements of which costs in the Nominative case, it means that several words will be a subject.
3. In the presence in the offer of commas or the union "also" check whether there is no second subject in it. If it is several such sentence parts, then it becomes difficult. Depending on communication type between a basis such sentence will be considered as compound or complex.
4. Define where there is a predicate. It is simple to make it if you already found a subject. The second is connected with the first and has to answer the questions connected with actions of a subject or made with it and also with its state. A predicate most often - a verb, however there are also exceptions. It in some cases is expressed by a noun, a participle, a verbal or ordinary adjective, a pronoun and an adverb. Also in some cases the predicate can consist not of one, and of two words. It can be specific designs with auxiliary verbs, for example, for future time, or the whole phrases which settled as phraseological units.
5. If necessary note an offer basis in the text. For this purpose emphasize a subject with one line, and a predicate - two lines.