What Does Basic Sentence Pattern Mean

What does BASIC SENTENCE PATTERN mean?
Almost all basic patterns may be reduced to model sentences:

Someone acts. (S - IV)
Someone does something. (S - TV - DO)
Someone gives someone something. (S - TV - IO - DO)
A person or thing is something. (S - LV - C)
Something is done by someone. (S - PV)
As with all simplifications, this is accurate most, if not all, of the
time. As you can see, the verb is the key to each pattern.
SUBJECT - INTRANSITIVE VERB
Intransitive verbs show action but have neither a direct object nor a
substantive complement (predicate noun) or adjective complement
(predicate adjective) following the verb.
Example: Joe slept.
SUBJECT - TRANSITIVE VERB - DIRECT OBJECT
Transitive active verbs show action ("do") or possession ("have")
followed by a direct object, someone or something which receives
the verb's action.
Example: Joe kicks Bill.
SUBJECT - TRANSITIVE VERB - INDIRECT OBJECT - DIRECT
OBJECT
You need to use a synonym of the verb "give" in this pattern.
Example: Joe gave Bill a kick.
Tom handed the doctor his chart.
SUBJECT - LINKING VERB - SUBSTANTIVE COMPLEMENT
(PREDICATE NOUN)
The linking verb is a specific kind of verb. Usually it is a form of the

verb be or a verb of the senses (feel, see, taste) If the verb is
followed by a SC, use a form of be, or become, or remain.
TEST: The S equals the SC.
Example: Jim is a doctor.
The linking verb may also be followed by an adjective which
modifies the subject.
TEST: Move the AC (pred. adj.) to the front of the sentence
before the subject.
Example: Jim feels good.
SUBJECT - PASSIVE VERB
The passive verb is a transformation of the transitive active
sentence. Use the following formula to form the passive verb: form
of be + the past participle form. The active sentence changes to
a passive sentence like this:
Active: Joe kicked Bill. Passive: Bill was kicked by Joe.
THE SUBSTANTIVE FUNCTION
The word substantive is used to include both nouns and noun
equivalents:
nouns-- common, Proper, collective
pronouns-- personal, indefinite, demonstrative, and the like
gerunds--verb form ending in -ing and functioning as a
noun
gerund phrases--gerund + modifier + object or
complement
infinitives--to + present from of verb
infinitive phrases--infinitive + modifiers + object or
complement
noun clauses-- dependent clauses [it has a subject and a
verb introduced by a subordinating conjunction, an
interrogative or indefinite relative pronoun/adjective/adverb]
functioning as a substantive in the sentence.
From Greek OXYS sharp, keen + MOROS foolish

NOUN COMPLEMENT is a word or group of words that modifies
a noun.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE consists of a preposition, its object
and modifiers of the object.
The dog with black spots is RJ.
The boy in tattered clothes looks like my cousin.
My friends on the beach are having a good time.
INFINITIVE PHRASE -- consists of an infinitive, plus an object or
modifier.
Mother copied a recipe to guide her in her cooking.
She is the candidate to watch for.
Her lifetime dream is to seil around the world.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSEis a dependent clause that describes
noun/pronoun.
The books that I borrowed are mystery novels.
The woman is wearing a red dress is my aunt.
The store where his products are sold got robbed.
1. O miserable abundance,
O, beggarly riches!
2. A yawn may be defined as silent yell
3. Small crowd
4. ill health
5. Clearly misunderstood
6. O brawling love! O loving hate!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well seeming forms!
Feather or lead, bright smoke,
Cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel, that feel no love in this.
OXYMORON - a combination of words that have opposite
or very different meaning.
NAKAHARA
WHEN ALONE, THOUGHTS OF YOU LINGER IN
SEEMS LIKE TIME, ETERNALLY EXISTS,
YET RUNS OUT.
ITS A BLISS SORROWFULLY PORTRAYED
WHEN LOVE CYNICALLY BEARS HATRED
MUST CLING TIGHTLY TO NOTHING
CAUGHT EAGERLY CONTENTED BY DESTINY
MIND SET A WANDERING
TO MEMORIES OF OBLIVION
REMINISCE PAST, RELIVE, LOVE,TEAR FLESH
ABOUT TO HEAL
CHERISH CURSE OF SWEET PAIN-ECSTATIC ISNT IT!
LIVE HARD TODAY, LIVE LONG EACH DAY!
AM I WORTHY OF THIS PERENNIAL AGONY?
HOPE, EMOTIONS, CONSCIOUSNESS, SENSES--LET THESE DEPART
FOR IF NOT, FRESH BLOOD FLOWS
FROM FLESH ABOUT TO HEAL --TORN CONSTANTLY!
UNFAMILIAR WORDS
1. Linger - to remain alive although gradually dying
2. Bliss - completely happiness
3. Cling - to hold together
4. Cynically - bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous,
or pessimistic.
5. Eagerly marked by enthusiastic or impatient desire or
interest
6. Oblivion - the state of being completely forgotten or
unknown
7. Cherish to feel or show affection
8. Ecstatic - state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion:
an ecstatic frenzy
9. Perennial - lasting or continuing throughout the entire year,

as a stream
10.Reminisce - to recall past experiences, events, etc.; indulge

in reminiscence.

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Almost all basic patterns may be reduced to model sentences:

The linking verb is a specific kind of verb. Usually it is a form of the

From Greek OXYS sharp, keen + MOROS foolish

9. Perennial - lasting or continuing throughout the entire year,

10.Reminisce - to recall past experiences, events, etc.; indulge

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