Question

Write the sentence on the basic sentence pattern

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

In its simplest form, an English sentence has two parts: a subject and a verb that express a complete thought when they are together.

The subject shows who or what is doing the action. It is always some form of noun or pronoun.

The verb shows the action or the state of being. It can be an action verb, like “run,” or a state verb, like “seem.”

Examples of simple two word sentences include:

Marvin slept.

Dogs bark.

Isotopes react.

Real sentences are rarely so short. We usually want to convey much more information, so we modify the main subject and verb with other words and phrases, as in the sentences below:

Unfortunately, Marvin slept fitfully.

Dogs bark louder after midnight.

Heavy isotopes react more slowly than light isotopes of the same element.

Despite the extra information, each of these sentences has one subject and one verb, so it’s still just one clause. What’s a clause?

A clause is the combination of a subject and a verb. When you have a subject and verb, you have a clause. Pretty easy, isn’t it? We’re going to concentrate on clauses in this handout, with emphasis on these two in particular:

Independent clause: a subject and verb that make a complete thought. Independent clauses are called independent because they can stand on their own and make sense.

Dependent clause: a subject and verb that don’t make a complete thought. Dependent clauses always need to be attached to an independent clause (they’re too weak to stand alone).

We’ll talk more about dependent clauses later on, but also see our handout on fragments for a more detailed description of these types of clauses.

Something tricky

Before we move on to the sentence types, you should know a little trick of subjects and verbs: they can double up in the same clause. These are called “compound” subjects or verbs because there are two or more of them in the same clause.

Compound subject (two subjects related to the same verb):

Javier and his colleagues collaborated on the research article.

Compound verb (two verbs related to the same subject):

Answer 2

Basic sentence patterns.

• A sentence is a set of words that together conveys a complete meaning.
• A sentence usually contains a subject and a predicate.
• A subject may be a noun, pronoun, or a group of words that acts as a noun.
• The predicate may be simple or complex with a verb and sometimes an object.
• There are 5 basic sentence patterns.
• 1. Subject - a verb that connects subject and complement - compliment.
• Example: Bhanu seems sad.
• 2. Subject + verbs which do not need a direct object
• Example: Arthi sleeps
• 3. Subject-verb - direct object
• example: Raju hit the ball
• 4. subject - verb - direct object - indirect object.
• example: Harsh lends Anu some books.
• 5. Subject-verb - direct object- object complement
• He drove the car carelessly
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