Abstract
In almost all traditional and modern grammar books, it is admitted that simple sentence has two obligatory elements, its subject and predicate, which are named in different terms. On most occasions it is observed that the notion of the subject and predicate is known with other terms as topic- focus by Hokiti or theme-rheme by representatives of School of Pague. Representatives of Functional grammar are based on this approach as well. Certainly, these terms do not match with subject and predicate as a syntactic category of the language. Definitions of the subject and predicate often encounter problems, because the sentence contains not only obligatory elements it contains other optional elements as well. DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3s1p637
Highlights
In almost all traditional and modern grammar books, it is admitted that simple sentence has two obligatory elements, its subject and predicate, which are named in different terms
Representatives of Functional grammar are based on this approach as well
These terms do not match with subject and predicate as a syntactic category of the language
Summary
In almost all traditional and modern grammar books, it is admitted that simple sentence has two obligatory elements, its subject and predicate, which are named in different terms. Representatives of Functional grammar are based on this approach as well. These terms do not match with subject and predicate as a syntactic category of the language. Definitions of the subject and predicate often encounter problems, because the sentence contains obligatory elements it contains other optional elements as well. The subject of discussion is a name, individual or thing around which something is said and predicated, statement made about the individual or the thing
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