sentence patterns sv, sva etc

7/31/2019 Sentence Patterns Sv, Sva Etc

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The Most Basic Pattern:

SUBJECT + VERB

Rocks explode.

Rocks explode.
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The Most Basic Pattern:

SUBJECT + VERB

This pattern uses an intransitive verb.

Intransitive verbs take no direct object.


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The verb in a Pattern 1 sentence does not

have to be the last word of the sentence.

Happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow.

bluebirds fly

rainbow
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Pattern 2:

Subject + Verb + ObjectWe ate pepperoni pizza.

pizza.ateWe

Transitive verbs are verbs that take direct objects.

DIRECT OBJECTS apply only to action verbs (not linking verbs).
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mammals.areElephants

Elephants are mammals.

When the subject complement is a noun (or pronoun), it RENAMES the

subject and the sentence is reversible. (Mammals are elephants.) We use

the back-slash to indicate that the subject complement refers back to the

subject.

Pattern 3:Subject + Verb + Subject Complement
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large.are

Elephants

Elephants are large.

When the subject complement is a noun (or pronoun), it RENAMES thesubject and the sentence is reversible. (Mammals are elephants.) We use

the back-slash to indicate that the subject complement refers back to the

subject.

Pattern 3:

Subject + Verb + Subject Complement


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pretty.lookElephants

Elephants look pretty .

A few other verbs sometimes get treated like linking verbs: look, feel,

sound, smell,

taste, become, grow, appear

Pattern 3:

Subject + Verb + Subject Complement


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pretty.lookLilies


The adjective is a direct description of the subject.

Pattern 4:

Subject + Verb + adjectives


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here.are grownLilies


The adverb modifies the verb are grown.

Pattern 5:

Subject + Verb + adverbs


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Revision of SVO

Parse the following sentence accurately.

- I like anime.

- I love cars.

- The women built a strong wall.

- The teacher held up an orange.

- The professor loves buns, sausages, bananas andcoke.


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SVOO

Stands for subject | verb | object | object

The students gave the teacher a headache.

Subject The students

Verb Gave

Object (1) the teacher

Object (2) a headache. *why? Because both the teacher and the

headache are separate objects and entities.


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Wait theres more

Comparison of SVOO and SVOC (complement)

SVOO - The students gave the teacher a

headache.

SVOC The Students made the teacher sad.

In SVOC , sad is the C.

Because the teacher is an object and sadcomplements the sentence.


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Compared to SVOA

SVOC The Students made the teacher sad.

SVOA The students teased the teacher

consistently.

In svoa , A is consistently because consistently isan adverb and because consistently

complements the word teased.


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Some revision.

The wedding made the bride very happy.

The monkey kissed one of the PPISMP MT sem2 tenderly.

The donkey gave me a carrot.

He ran away quickly.

The hairy baboon smiled. He jumped over a wall.

The queen made me a knight.

The athlete hit a curve ball to the other athlete.

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