BASIC SENTENCE PATTERNS

SUBJECT PREDICATE SUBJECT

COMPLEMENT
1) NOUN LINKING VERB NOUN
My friend is a singer
2) NOUN LINKING VERB ADJECTIVE
My friend is smart
3) NOUN LINKING VERB LOCATIVE
My friend is there
4) NOUN LINKING VERB ADJECTIVE
My friend looks happy
SUBJECT PREDICATE OBJECT (INDIRECT) OBJECT (DIRECT)
5) NOUN INTRANSITIVE VERB - -
My friend was sleeping - -
6) NOUN TRANSITIVE -MONO - NOUN
My friend Is cooking - fried noodle
7) NOUN TRANSITIVE-DI NOUN NOUN
My friend read me a story
= NOUN PREDICATE OBJECT (DIRECT) OBJECT (INDIRECT)
My friend read a story to me
THERE PREDICATE SUBJECT
8) THERE LINKING VERB NOUN
There is a mouse
There are mice
There is smoke
(noncount)
• All sentences in patterns are statements.
• Kinds of sentences based on purpose:
• 1) declarative
• 2) interrogative
• 3) imperative
• 4) exclamative
 Declarative sentence
• Purpose: To inform
• Form: statement
• Begins with a subject
• Ends with a period
• Ex. The street (S, N)is (P, LV)full with cars,
trucks, and buses (SC, Adj ).