ABSTRACT
According to how a sentence is structured, there are subject-predicate sentences and non-subject-predicate sentences in Chinese. Non-subject-predicate sentences include single-word sentences and sentences with no subject. As its name implies, a subject-predicate sentence consists of a subject and a predicate, and based on the properties of the predicate, a subject-predicate sentence can be divided into four types: the sentence with verb as predicate; the sentence with adjective as predicate; the sentence with subject-predicate as predicate; and the sentence with noun as predicate. The sentence with a verb as a predicate mainly narrates action or psychological activity of a person or development of a thing. This is the majority of Chinese sentences. The adjective as predicate is much restricted in functioning alone and it is mainly used in the comparative sentence. Adjectives as predicate often take adverbs for degree. Due to its simple structure, the sentence with noun as predicate doesn’t take any complement nor object.
