Sentence pattern
Subject: Subject – S – consists of nouns or pronouns – occurs before a verb.
Verb- V – consists of (a) auxiliaries (b) finite verbs.
(a) Auxiliaries:
am, is are, was, were has, have, had : does, do, did Modals: can, could; will, would; shall, should; may, might; must Semi-Modals / Quasi Modals: dare to; need to; used to; ought to (b) Finite verbs – denote action: e.g., sing, play, write, make, dance, leave, create, etc. verbs occur after the subject (or) before the object.
S + V pattern
Object: Object – O – consists of nouns or noun phrases or noun clauses. (a) DO – Direct Object – answers the question ‘what’ after V (b) IO – Indirect Object – answers the question ‘whom’
S V O pattern:
S V O IO pattern S V O DO pattern
Complement: Complement – C – from the word ‘complete’ – complete the meaning in the sentence
In S V C pattern, the complement C – complements the subjects – tells about the subject – without C, the sentence is incomplete or the sentence changes its meaning. – “to be” forms, grow, become, seems for a verb.
the same person/thing – without C, incomplete meaning.
in S V O C pattern: – the complement tells about the object – the complement and object are of the same person or thing.
Adjunct: Adjunct – A – answers the questions where? when ? how ? why? – Absence of ‘A’ does not change the meaning of the sentence.
