LESSON OBJECTIVES:

1. Understand sentence pattern.

2. Identify the pattern of the given sentences.

In this piece, the focus will be on what a sentence pattern

really is:
 Sentence pattern examples
 What grammar mistakes can be made in English sentence
pattern
 Correcting English sentence pattern with the free online English
grammar checker tool.

What Is a Sentence Pattern?

A sentence pattern is how a sentence is structured using
different parts of speech. There are about six different sentence
patterns in English language known as the basic sentence patterns.

They include:
 Noun/verb
 Noun/verb/noun
 Noun/verb/adverb
 Noun/linking verb/noun
 Noun/linking verb/adjective
 Noun/verb/noun/noun

From the patterns outlined above, one can see that sentence
patterns in English grammar are made of noun, verb, and adverb
being tossed around.

We will take them one after the other in details for a better
understanding of how they function as grammar sentence
patterns:
Noun/verb: this group of sentence pattern is made of verbs that
do not require a subject and noun. Of all the sentence patterns in
English grammar, the most basic of them all is the noun followed
by a verb.

Here are some phrases that serve as examples of the

noun/verb sentence pattern:

 John smokes
 Students study
 People ran

Generally, the noun/verb pattern sentences are as simple as

just two words put together, one a noun, the other a verb. To make
things more interesting, these Basic English grammar sentence
patterns can be modified by adding other elements like a noun
phrase, possessive adjective, and others.

Here are some modifications to the simple noun/verb

sentence patterns listed above:

 John smokes – my friend John smokes

 Student study – our students’ study
 People ran – our athletes ran

As you can see in the sentence pattern in English grammar

examples, the modified sentences are basically the same as the
earlier ones. The only difference is that the second ones are more
precise than the first.

Noun/verb/noun: the noun/verb/noun English grammar pattern

sentences are developed from the noun/verb basic sentence
pattern. In this pattern, a noun/verb basic grammar pattern is used
with a noun that can take objects.
Here are some examples:

 Tony jumps rope

 The children are making pastries
 He sleeps in the house

So, there is a noun, a verb, and a noun that can take objects
in the noun/verb/noun as you can see in the example of sentence
pattern above.

Noun/verb/adverb: the third basic sentence pattern in English

grammar is the noun/verb/adverb pattern. Obviously, they are
sentences structured by using nouns, verbs, and adverbs per time.
It is also developed from the noun/verb structure, the addition
being a description of how an action is carried out; which is the
function of the adverb in the structure.

Examples of the noun/verb/adverb sentence pattern are:

 Laura ate very fast

 He talks carefully
 Jane jumps high

From the instances above, the terms fast, carefully, and high
are all adverbs describing the noun/verb structures, making them
noun/verb/adverb structures.

Noun/linking verb/noun: this is a bit different from all other

basic sentence patterns. In this structure, a linking verb is used to
link one noun to another. This means there must be two nouns and
a linking verb to make up the noun/linking verb/noun structure.

Here are some sentence pattern with examples:

 Toby is a sailor
 Kenneth will become Stephanie’s husband
 France is a country
 Linking verbs are also known as equating verbs that can
equate one thing with another as can be seen in the illustrations
above.

Noun/linking verb/adjective: this basic sentence pattern

comprises of a noun, a linking verb, and an adjective. It is slightly
similar to the noun/linking verb/noun sentence pattern. The only
difference is that the noun/linking verb/adjective sentence pattern
links a noun and an adjective with a linking verb, while the
noun/linking verb/noun links two nouns with a linking verb.

Here are a few illustrations:

 The children are unhappy

 My dog is slow
 The math problem seem easy

The linking verbs here, just like in the noun/linking verb/noun

sentence pattern, can also be referred to as equating verbs.

Noun/verb/noun/noun: this basic sentence pattern is used with

verbs that take both direct and indirect objects. It is structured in
a way that a noun comes first, then a verb, a noun, and another
noun.

Here are some examples of a noun/verb/noun/noun

grammar sentence pattern:

 Mother bought Thelma a gift

 I showed Vin my car
 His father taught him how to drive a car
ACTIVITY:

Directions: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. Use this as

your answer sheet.

1. She will come.

a. SV b. SVO c. SVC d. SVOC

2. She became a teacher.

a. SVCA b. SVO c. SVA d. SVC

3. One of the boys must go.

a. SVC b. SVCA c. SVOA d. SV

4. I wish you Happy New Year.

a. SV b. SV IO DO c. SVC d. SVOC

5. It is dark everywhere.
a. SVC b. SVCA c. SVA d. SVOA

6. I am a programmer in this company.

a. SVC b. SVCA c. SVA d. SVOA

7. He always dresses neatly.

a. SAVA b. SVCA c. SVOA d. SVOAA

8. He gave the book to him.

a. SVO b. SV DO A c. SV DO IO d. SV IO DO

9. I met his friend yesterday.

a. SVOA b. ASV c. SVC d. SVOC