Sentence elements

Sentence elements are also known as constituents. They are not the same thing as parts of speech

Predicate

The predicate contains a verb, and potentially has one or more objects as well.

• The Subject
• The Predicate
• Objects
• Adverbials
• Complements
• Complement collocations
• Attributives

Potential content

• Classification of sentences by structure
  • Verbal predicate sentences
  • Adjectival predicate sentences
  • Nominal predicate sentences
  • Sentences with subject-predicate phrase predicates
  • Subjectless sentences
• Parts of speech as various sentence elements
  • Parts of speech as subject
  • Parts of speech as predicate
    • Parts of speech as object
  • Parts of speech as adverbial
  • [[Parts of speech as complement]

Sources and further reading

• 外国人实用汉语语法(中英文对照) (p. 154, pp. 228 - 329)