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==Functional breakdown== A sentence may also be broken down by functional parts: subject, object, adverbial, verb (predicator).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Aarts |first1=Bas |last2=Haegeman |first2=Liliane |author2-link=Liliane Haegeman |year=2006 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xm0isUzM_iIC&pg=PA117 |chapter=Ch. 6. 'English Word Classes and Phrases' |editor1=Bas Aarts |editor2=Liliane Haegeman |title=The Handbook of English Linguistics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xm0isUzM_iIC |location=Malden, Mass. |publisher=Wiley-Blackewell |pages=117β145 |isbn=9781405187879 |oclc=702267934}}</ref> The subject is the owner of an action, the verb represents the action, the object represents the recipient of the action, and the adverbial qualifies the action. The various parts can be phrases rather than individual words.
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