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    This document outlines the seven basic sentence patterns in English: SV, SVO, SVC, SVOO, SVOC, SVA, and SVOA. It explains that most simple and complex clauses follow one of these patterns, with the subject, verb, object, complement, and adverbial denoted by S, V, O, C, and A respectively. Examples are provided for each pattern type to illustrate how clauses can vary in length while maintaining the same underlying pattern.

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    This document outlines the seven basic sentence patterns in English: SV, SVO, SVC, SVOO, SVOC, SVA, and SVOA. It explains that most simple and complex clauses follow one of these patterns, with the subject, verb, object, complement, and adverbial denoted by S, V, O, C, and A respectively. Examples are provided for each pattern type to illustrate how clauses can vary in length while maintaining the same underlying pattern.

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    7 Basic Sentence Patterns

    The English language has seven basic sentence (or clause) patterns. Examples are:

    1. John / laughed. (SV)*


    2. John / kissed / Jane. (SVO)
    3. John / is / tall. (SVC)
    4. John / gave / Jane / a present. (SVOO)
    5. John / made / Jane / angry. (SVOC)
    6. John / sat / up. (SVA)
    7. John / put / the bag / down. (SVOA)

    Most simple and complex (but not compound) clauses are of one of these patterns no matter how
    long the clauses are. For example, the following two sentences are essentially of the same pattern.

    8. Jane / bought / fruit. (SVO)


    9. My long lost sister Jane / has been buying / a variety of fruit. (SVO)
    * There are five sentence class terms: S = subject, V = verb, O = object, C = complement, and A
    = adverbial. The slash (/) denotes the boundary between syntactic terms.

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