Clause elements is a word/phrase/Clause that fulfills a syntactic functions

in a clause or a sentence.
Subject: The subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being
soemthing.

Verb: A verb is a word that expresses an action or a state of being.

Adverbial: Adverbial is a word or a group of words that modifies or tells us something about the
sentence of the verb. Adverbial must be able to answer these three questions:
HOW,WHEN,WHERE

ADVERB

The weather’s so terrible, it is possible that our flight will be cancelled.

Have a good weekend, Rachel. I’ll see you on Monday morning.

Indirect object: Indirect object is a noun phrase referring to someone or something that is
affected by the action of a transitive verb.

Direct object: Direct object is a noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is recipient of the
action of a transitive verb.

Subject predicative: The subject predicative explains what the subject is or does.

Object predicative: The object predicative explains what the object is or does.

5 clause elements:

S+V+A ( I LIE DOWN )

S+V+IO+DO ( HENRIK TAUGHT OTHERS THE GAME )

S+V+DO+OP ( THE MOVIE MADE HER HAPPY )

S+V+SP ( HER SHIRT IS ORANGE )

S+V+DO ( HENRIK WROTE A LETTER )