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    LESSON SIX (06)

    SENTENCE PATTERNS

    What parts make a sentence?

    How to find the different parts of a sentence?

    START with the VERB!

    To find the predicate: locate an action verb, linking verb, or verb phrase NEXT…
    look for the SUBJECT. To find the subject: Ask who/what [verb]?

    A sentence may have a DIRECT OBJECT, INDIRECT OBJECT, or BOTH!  To


    find the direct object: Ask [verb] what?  To find the indirect object: Ask [verb]
    to/for whom/what?

    EXAMPLE:

    I gave Mom a bouquet of weeds.

    PREDICATE: action/linking/verb phrase (gave).

    SUBJECT: Who/What [gave]? (I)

    Direct Object: [gave] what? (a bouquet of weeds).

    Indirect Object: [gave] to whom? (Mom)

    EXAMPLE 2:

    Tomorrow will be a snow day.

    PREDICATE: find an action verb, linking verb, or verb phrase (will be)

    SUBJECT: who/what [verb]? (Tomorrow)

    Direct Object: [verb] what? (a snow day)

    Indirect Object: [verb] to/for whom/what? nothing!

    Practice: Find the parts of this sentence

    At Barnes and Noble, the students bought their teacher a new book.

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    Sentence Parts:

    Pattern 1: SUBJECT + VERB (SV)

    In its simplest form, a sentence has two parts: a subject and a verb. They express a
    complete thought when they are together. Remember a sentence is like a bike…

    Subject Verb
    Answers who/ what is doing the action? Shows an action or a state of being

    Options: noun or pronoun Options: action verb, linking verb, or


    verb phrase (helping verb + main verb)

    Examples of pattern 1:

    Subject + Verb
    Singular noun Dog barks. Action verb

    Pronoun I am. Linking verb

    Plural noun Siblings argue. Action verb

    Proper Noun Bell should go. Verb phrase

    Compound subjec He and I arrived. Action verb

    Practice:

    Activity 1: Write an original sentence using this pattern: Subject + Verb

    Singular noun + action verb

    Plural noun + linking verb

    Singular subject pronoun + verb phrase

    Plural subject pronoun + action verb

    Proper noun + compound predicate

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    Pattern 2: SUBJECT + VERB + DIRECT OBJECT (S+V+DO)

    Subject + Verb + Direct Object

    Who or What? Action verb / verb phrase


    (h e l p i n g v e r b + a c t i o n v e r b )

    Noun or pronoun Receives the action of the verb

    Ask yourself: [verb] what?

    Example:

    Subject: Jenny Verb: made Direct Object: cake

    Practice:

    Activity 1: Label the sentence parts:

    Monkeys eat bananas.


    She loves her job.
    He’s eating an orange.

    Activity 2: Write three examples of this pattern (SUBJECT + VERB + DIRECT OBJECT).

    Pattern 3: SUBJECT + VERB + INDIRECT OBJECT + DIRECT OBJECT (SVOO)

    Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object

    Who or What? Action verb / verb phrase


    (h e l p i n g v e r b + a c t i o n v e r b )

    Noun or pronoun Receives the action of the verb

    Ask yourself: [verb] what?

    Identifies to or for whom or what


    the action of the verb is per formed
    Ask your self : [verb] to/for whom/what?

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    Example: Ahmed offered Dad a book.

    Subject: Ahmed
    Verb: offered
    Indirect Object: Dad
    Direct Object: a book

    Practice:

    Activity 1: Label the sentence parts:

    1. The teacher gave her students A's.


    2. Grandfather will leave the dogs his money.
    3. The pirate sold me his boat.

    Pattern 4: SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENT (SVC)

    Subject + Verb + Complement

    Who or What? “To be” verbs like


    am, is, are, was, were, etc.

    Noun or pronoun Sensory verbs like the adjective OR noun that

    appear, feel, grow, look, etc. follows a linking verb.

    Note:

    Complement = completes the subject


    A linking verb LINKS the subject of the sentence to its subject complement; therefore, this
    pattern only works with linking verbs.

    Examples:

    1. Brandon is a gifted athlete.


    Brandon = subject
    is = linking verb
    athlete = noun as subject complement.
    2. He becomes embarrassed when people compliment his skill.
    He = subject
    becomes = linking verb
    embarrassed = adjective as subject complement.

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