No grammar skills needed—here’s how to split an English sentence in 3 steps:
Sentence: This has risen by over 100,000 in the past year.
- Set aside non-essential structures
Remove phrases that describe how or when the action happens:
by over 100,000 (describes the action’s scale)
in the past year (describes the action’s time frame)
- Identify the action in the core structure
What’s left: This has (risen)
The action here is the verb risen (with the helping verb “has” to show tense).
- Find the doer and recipient of the action
- Doer of the action (who/what is “rising”?): this
- Recipient of the action (who/what receives the action?): None (some actions, like “rise,” don’t need a recipient—they stand alone).
This method strips sentences to their core: Action → Doer → (Recipient, if it exists).
No grammar rules, just focus on what’s happening first! 🚀