Basic English sentences follow a common pattern.

Use this pattern to expand your sentences as well as to chunk and understand longer, more complex sentences.

Learn to recognize the following chunks of a sentence to help you to understand what you read better and to help
you write more grammatically correct:

Who / is or does what / where / when / how / why.

Note: Who and What are REQUIRED. Where, when, how, and why can be moved to the beginning of the sentence (followed by a
comma), to add sentence variety.

REQUIRED OPTIONAL (but add details and interest to your sentences)

Who What Where When How Why
=subject =verb
=noun or pronoun or noun phrase (begins predicate &
(= noun + all adj modifiers) tells what subject does/is)
(place or location) (time / sequence) (in what manner) (reasons)
 REQUIRED OPTIONAL (but add details and interest to your sentences)
Who What Where When How Why
=subject =verb
=noun or pronoun or noun phrase (begins predicate &
(= noun + all adj modifiers) tells what subject does/is)
(place or location) (time / sequence) (in what manner) (reasons)