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