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Definition of Simple sentence
1. Noun. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses.
Definition of Simple sentence
1. Noun. (grammar) A sentence that contains one independent clause and no dependent clause. Compare compound sentence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simple Sentence
Literary usage of Simple sentence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy by James Champlin Fernald (1916)
"One who has completely mastered the simple sentence can understand any ...
A simple sentence may consist of but two words, a noun (or pronoun) and a verb; ..."
2. English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy by James Champlin Fernald (1916)
"One who has completely mastered the simple sentence can understand any sentence
that can be made, for the most involved compound or complex sentences are ..."
3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"THE simple sentence AND ITS PARTS AND KINDS. 260. A sentence is an expression of
a conception by means of a word or words used in such form and manner as to ..."
4. The Elements of English Grammar by George Philip Krapp (1908)
"The simple sentence.—Sentences are classified, according to their ... A Simple
Sentence is one which contains only one subject, predicate, and object. ..."
5. The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown (1851)
"And if " a simple sentence is that which has but one nominative and one finite
verb," and " a compound sentence is made up of two or more simple sentences," ..."
6. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures: Embracing a New Systematic Order of by Samuel Kirkham (1845)
"A simple sentence contains but one subject, or nominative, and one verb which
agrees with that nominative ; as, " Wheat grows in the field. ..."
7. Composition and Rhetoric by William M. Tanner (1922)
"The simple sentence. A simple sentence is a sentence that contains but one ...
A simple sentence may contain, instead of a simple subject and a simple ..."
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