What type of sentence is this and journal entries

[dtharachai]

1. What do you call this type of sentence ?
Met with QC, Production and R&D supervisors to discuss new Shrimp Wonton order for Korean customer.
2. Why do we start an entry in a diary with a past tense verb?
3. Does this type of sentence always have a subject and predicate?
Thank you
DTharachai

[Soup]

1. Declarative with an implied subject.
2. The events happened. They're in the past.
3. All sentences, even imperatives, have a subject and predicate. Otherwise, they would be called fragments.

[BobK]

1. Declarative with an implied subject.
2. The events happened. They're in the past.
3. All sentences, even imperatives, have a subject and predicate. Otherwise, they would be called fragments.

Just to underline the obvious, the implied subject of this sort of journal entry is "I" or "We".

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[dtharachai]

Dear Soup,

I still don't understand.

If I start my sentence with "I". I becomes my subject and met is the verb. what is the rest of the sentence?

Why isn't "supervisors my subject and discuss the verb?

Thank you,
DTharachai

[Soup]

Why isn't "supervisors" my subject and "discuss" the verb?

First, the subject is missing, which means that it could be any one of a number of pronouns or nouns, but the assumption--given that you are the one writing the journal entry--is that you, the writer, met with supervisors of the following departments, Quality Control, Production, and Research & Design. Second,

this here,

Met with QC, Production and R&D supervisors...

also means this,

Met with supervisors...

and this,

Met with supervisors from Quality Control, Production, and Research & Design...

The noun supervisors can't be the subject, because it's part of the verb's object; I met with supervisors.


Lastly, to discuss is a verb, but not the main verb. Its subject is implied, either we or I,

(I) met with QC, Production and R&D supervisors [in order] to discuss (so that we, together as a group, could discuss / so that I could discuss with them) [the] new Shrimp Wonton order for [the] Korean customer.