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Sentence Pattern

The document outlines the basic elements of a sentence including the subject and predicate. It describes the two major parts of a sentence as the subject, which is the doer or topic of the sentence, and the predicate, which provides information about the subject. Transitive and intransitive verbs are discussed along with the roles of direct objects, indirect objects, and object complements in sentences.
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Sentence Pattern

The document outlines the basic elements of a sentence including the subject and predicate. It describes the two major parts of a sentence as the subject, which is the doer or topic of the sentence, and the predicate, which provides information about the subject. Transitive and intransitive verbs are discussed along with the roles of direct objects, indirect objects, and object complements in sentences.
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SENTENCE PATTERN

ELEMENT OF A SENTTENCE

TWO MAJOR PART OF


THE SENTENCE

SUBJECT PREDICATE

• Doer of the action • The information about the


• The one being talked about Subject.

Example: Jane is the smartest student in our class.


Subject Predicate

DIRECT OBJECT
- a noun, a pronoun, or group of words which receives the action of
a transitive verb.
-answers the questions WHAT or WHOM after an action verb.

Example: The young boy called his mother in the office.


S TV
Who the boy called
in the office?

Transitive Verb
a verb that requires an object
to receive the action.
INDirect Object

-a noun, a pronoun, or a group of words that names the person or


thing to whom/which something is given.
-It receives the direct object

Examples: Arianne baked her twin sister a cake


S TV
What Arianne baked?

For whom the cake


Arianne baked?

BASIC SENTENCE PATTERN


An INTRANSITIVE VERB is a verb
S-Iv WITHOUT a direct object

Subject + Intransitive verb


Marie cooperated voluntarily.

A TRANSITIVE VERB is a verb that  Direct object is the thing


requires both SUBJECT + DO that the subject acts upon,
S + TV + DO so in that last sentence, 
Subject + transitive verb + direct object
The students helped the barangay.
Someone ate my sandwich.
Predicate Pronoun is the noun or pronoun that
comes after a linking verb. It renames the subject
S + LV + PN of the sentence.
Subject-linking verb-predicate nominative
Teachers are our second parents.
The nurse is pretty. linking verb is a verb that links (connects) the
subject of the sentence to information about
that subject
An Indirect object is an optional part of a
sentence; it's the recipient of an action.
S + TV + IO + DO
Subject-transitive verb-indirect object-direct object
My dad gave my mom a gift last night.

An object complement (also


called an objective complement)
S + TV + DO + OC follows a direct object. It may
Subject-transitive verb-direct object-objective complement be a word or phrase that gives
They elected Myrna president of the class. further meaning to the direct
object.
An object complement can be a
noun, pronoun, or adjective

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