What must a sentence contain?

Question

name the things that a sentence contains.

Answer 1

A finished thought

Answer 2

The answer would be none of the above. Traditional sentences must contain a subject and a predicate. Also capitalization and a full stop or other punctuation at the end. So go! is wrong. It should be Go! But that is an example of a nominal sentence. Actually single words are called word sentences. Coffee? Tea? They can be just a noun, or expressions; Hey! Why? Nominal sentences usually omit verbs. So refering to 'all' sentences - they must contain a capital letter at the beginning and a punctuation mark at the end.

Answer 3

A complete sentence must consist of a subject and a predicate.
Subject is the what and who is being talked about. It is either noun,pronoun personal pronoun. The predicate says something about the subject and is also the doer of the action word or verb. Subject and predicate are always, except for few exeptions, linked together by linking verbs(are, is, was, were etc)
e.g. The girl is asking a question
subject: The girl
predicate: is asking a question
Sometimes both the subject and the predicate have their own objects seperately being talked about
ex. The sharpness of the question allowed deliberation among the askers.
Subject: The sharpness of the question
predicate allowed deliberationamong the askers
object of the subject: sharpness
object of the predicate : among the askers
The object of the subject must always be an adjective, adverb, or an advervial clause
object of the predicate must always be a noun, pronoun,personal pronoun, that is also being talked about independently by the predicate apart from what is being talked about in the subject of the sentence.

A subject also don't only consist of nouns or so. They also consist of adverbs why, where, when, what at, by etc) that serves as conjunction to the predicate. This is possible when a sentence is at interrogative form.
ex. When are you coming?
subject:When
predicate are you coming
object of the predicate: you

Answer 4

A sentence must contain a subject and a predicate to form a complete thought.

I am. You are. Boys fight.

Those are all complete sentences, because they express a complete thought about a subject. Punctuation is the instruction on how to understand the sentence. The period at the end of a sentence is the symbol expressing the end of that thought.

Answer 5

The basic grammatical English sentence structure dictates that a sentence should contain a subject, verb and object. For example; The boy took the book.. or He took it. However, if you move beyond syntax into a more philosophical perspective of language, a sentence can even be constructed from a single word which could be a noun, pronoun, adverb, adjective, etc.
Take a look at these examples;
Where did you go? "England/school."
How did he play? "Well."
What did she looked like? "Beautiful."
The above answers are complete statements and therefore qualify as sentences.

Answer 6

A sentence must contain a subject and a verb.

Answer 7

With the exception of the explictive, all sentences must contain as a minimum, a verb and a noun that form a comple thought.

Answer 8

Hmmm.....a philosophical question.

Usually, a sentence must contain words.

The words could describe punishment, or they might contain a few moments of a song, perhaps even a mathematical formula used for encouraging rhyme, to possibly further a love affair with books, or a good author.

Answer 9

A complete sentence contains (1) a subject and (2) a verb.
You don't need the subject if it is implied:
Example: "Stop!"
The subject is implied: subject: (You) and verb: Stop!

Answer 10

Subject,object,verb.

Answer 11

They contain a "subject", or the performer of an action, an "object", the thing the action is being performed on, and a "verb", or the action being performed.