Basic Sentence Patterns I

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Basic Sentence Patterns I

• English Syntax 6th meeting

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Pattern I SV (Subject Verb)

• Our girls smile.
• Subject InV.
• The verb in Pattern I is intransitive verb.
• They finished late.
• The birds sing.

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Pattern 2 SVC (Subject Verb Subjective
Complement)

• The man is drunk.
• He became the vice president.
• Subpattern 2A NP LV Adjective
• The food is good.
• NP LV Adj
• Subpattern 2B NP¹ LV NP¹
• My friend is a doctor
• NP¹ LV NP¹

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Pattern 3 SVA ( Subject Verb Adverbial)

• The girl is here
• Subject Verb Adverbial
• Pattern 3 is usually confused with Pattern 2A,
  but pattern 3 cant follow the pattern 2As
  expansion.
• The wolf is very hungry Pattern 2A
• The wolf is very outside Pattern 3

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Pattern 4 SVO ( Subject Verb Direct Object)

• The girl bought a dress.
• Subject TranVerb Direct Obj.
• In pattern 4 the verb that is used is transitive
  verb, therefore, it needs direct object.
• Normally the subject and object have different
  referent except if the object in reflexive
  pronoun and reciprocal pronoun.
• I saw myself
• They hate each other.