Sentence Pattern

What is a sentence pattern ?

              A sentence pattern is also called as a verb pattern. We call it Verb pattern because it determines the type of sentence structure. There are five important components in a sentence. They are subject, verb, object, complement and adjunct.

 1. Subject

            The part which names the person or thing we are speaking about is called the subject of the sentence.

                     (Eg) Tom wrote a poem.

 2. Verb

                           Verb is a word that denotes an action.

                      
                       (eg) Jerry bought a pen.

 3. Object

            The object of a sentence is the person or thing that receives the action of the verb. It answers for the question What? Or Whom?

             Direct object answer for the question “What?”
             Indirect object answers for the question “To Whom?”
                     

                       eg) My grandmother/ told/ me / a story.
                                                                   IO      DO

 4. Complement

              The words required to complete the meaning of a sentence are called complement of a sentence.

                       (eg) She is a  Doctor.

 5. Adjunct

             An adjunct is a word or group of words that gives extra information to a sentence, but, when removed makes no chance to its grammar.

                  Why ,      When ,   Where,      How ?

                           ↓                ↓                   ↓                 ↓
                       Reason      time            place         manner

                      (eg)   Tom will be punished because of what he did.
                                He will come tomorrow.
                                They were sightseeing around the city. 
                                He slowly paced the book on the counter.

•  Exercise:

          1. The lion/ killed/ a dear.

                   S            V           O

          2. We/ watch/ television.

                S       V            O

          

          3. The cow/ gives/  us/  milk.

                    S          V      IO     DO

          4. He/  is/  a teacher.

               S      V        C

          5. They/ made/ her/ famous.

                 S         V       O         C

          6. He/ writes/ slowly.

               S        V         A

       

          7. He/ asked/ him/ to stand up.

                S       V        O           V

          8. He/ will come/ at 5pm.

               S          V              A

          9. I am/ going/ to chennai.

                S          V             A

         10. He/ painted/ his house/ green.

                S          V             O              C