What is a homogeneous predicate, and what is its role in the sentence

Lev Tolstoy once said truthfully: "The Russian language is great and mighty." And this is really so, so it is so hard for foreigners. After all, the vocabulary of Russian - one of the richest languages of the world, and the development of its grammar and punctuation, even among philologists takes many years.

In this article, we will discuss the topic of homogeneous sentence members (PPPs), namely their concept, usage rules and punctuation. In particular, we will dwell in more detail on what a homogeneous predicate is, and what role it plays in the text.

What is needed for PPPs

Sentences in the Russian language are classified into simple and complex (depending on the number of syntactic links), on single-component and two-part (by the presence and subject, and the predicate), as well as on common and non-widespread (by the number of secondary members). The existence of such a rich syntax and allows you to form multi-faceted complex constructions and different styles of prose. Conversely, sentences with homogeneous predicates, subject, additions, definitions or circumstances can be used as a means of simplifying the semantic load: they exclude the need to heap up the text and shorten it. Thus, it is possible to store more information in a smaller verbal form.

Debriefing

As an example, we can formulate a sentence with homogeneous predicates: "During the break, the children played musical instruments, sang and danced." It is simple, two-parted, common and not piled with extraneous words. The only thing it is complicated with is homogeneous predicates, expressed in verbs in the plural of the past tense and connected by punctuation marks and a single union "and". Thus, instead of a compound sentence ("During the break, some children played musical instruments, others sang and the rest danced"), we were able to use a more compact version, retaining the previous volume of information. Here, in short we explained what a homogeneous predicate is, and what its role in the sentence is. Now consider how to apply it in the text.

The concept of

Uniform members are those that refer to one word, answer certain questions, and perform the same function in the proposal (subject / predicate / circumstance / addition / definition). For example, "There was a COMPUTER, RADIO, GLOBE, a toy MACHINE and an elegant STATUETTE on the table". All five selected words are dependent on the predicate and answer the general question "was that?" - "computer, radio, globe, machine and statuette." It can also be concluded that homogeneous members can be linked together by writing unions (single or repetitive) or punctuation marks, but then they are necessarily accompanied by the intonation of the enumeration. Most often this technique is used in descriptions of living objects or objects, helping to form an idea of it. In addition, they determine the special style of the proposal. So, homogeneous predicates give the text dynamism: "Dima then ran, then stumbled, then again accelerated the pace, resolutely tearing the victory of rivals."

Morphology and punctuation

Now we will understand in more detail what is a homogeneous predicate. Namely: how it can be expressed, and what punctuation marks are used for this. The simplest method is to use homogeneous sentence members in the form of one part of speech, separated only by unions or punctuation marks.

For example, "Everyone was chattering at a party, laughing, joking and dancing." This sentence can be complicated by extending homogeneous terms. It turns out: "At the party, everyone was chatting with each other, laughing loudly, jokingly and joking with pop music." You can also add a generic word (a single word that is refined and specified by a number of homogeneous members, while it applies to all the words of this series, answering one question with them and being the same member of the sentence). For example, "Everyone was chattering at a party, laughing, joking, dancing - in short, having fun." That is, if the generalizing word is after a series of homogeneous terms, then a dash is placed before it. And if it is located at the beginning of the row ("Everyone was having fun at the party: they chatted, laughed, joked and danced"), then a colon is put after it.

Note

In general, we found out what a homogeneous predicate is, what its role in the sentence is, and what punctuation it takes to form without a generalizing word and with it. Now it remains only to make out special difficulties, namely: how to recognize the heterogeneous and homogeneous terms of the sentence. The problem is that they can be expressed in different parts of speech and even phrases and phrases. For example, "Peter spent the whole day lying, sleeping, eating, walking and watching TV - in a word, he was hitting the buckets". Or "Anya's hair grew smooth, shiny, with funny curls near the ears."

Also, it is necessary to distinguish the repetitive words from homogeneous members of the sentence (Dad joked, and the children LAUGHT, LAUGH, LAUGHED), the same forms separated by the particle "not" (DO NOT BELIEVE, and he loves you), steady turnover (NO FISH or MEAT, NO Pooh NEE, NOT TO GIVE ANYTHING, etc.) and compound predicates, expressed by a combination of two verbs (I'll go and see, I'll do it, take it and tell it). Remember that in the above situations, the highlighted words are one member of the sentence!