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What Does Basic Sentence Pattern Mean

The document discusses basic sentence patterns and their components. It provides 5 examples of basic patterns: 1. Subject - Intransitive Verb (Someone acts) 2. Subject - Transitive Verb - Direct Object (Someone does something) 3. Subject - Transitive Verb - Indirect Object - Direct Object (Someone gives someone something) 4. Subject - Linking Verb - Substantive Complement (Someone is something) 5. Subject - Passive Verb (Something is done by someone) It then provides more details and examples for each pattern type, including definitions of key terms like intransitive verb, transitive verb, direct object, indirect object, linking

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What Does Basic Sentence Pattern Mean

The document discusses basic sentence patterns and their components. It provides 5 examples of basic patterns: 1. Subject - Intransitive Verb (Someone acts) 2. Subject - Transitive Verb - Direct Object (Someone does something) 3. Subject - Transitive Verb - Indirect Object - Direct Object (Someone gives someone something) 4. Subject - Linking Verb - Substantive Complement (Someone is something) 5. Subject - Passive Verb (Something is done by someone) It then provides more details and examples for each pattern type, including definitions of key terms like intransitive verb, transitive verb, direct object, indirect object, linking

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What does BASIC SENTENCE PATTERN mean?

Almost all basic patterns may be reduced to model sentences:


Someone acts. (S - IV)
Someone does something. (S - TV - DO)
Someone gives someone something. (S - TV - IO - DO)
A person or thing is something. (S - LV - C)
Something is done by someone. (S - PV)
As with all simplifications, this is accurate most, if not all, of the
time. As you can see, the verb is the key to each pattern.
SUBJECT - INTRANSITIVE VERB
Intransitive verbs show action but have neither a direct object nor a
substantive complement (predicate noun) or adjective complement
(predicate adjective) following the verb.
Example: Joe slept.
SUBJECT - TRANSITIVE VERB - DIRECT OBJECT
Transitive active verbs show action ("do") or possession ("have")
followed by a direct object, someone or something which receives
the verb's action.
Example: Joe kicks Bill.
SUBJECT - TRANSITIVE VERB - INDIRECT OBJECT - DIRECT
OBJECT
You need to use a synonym of the verb "give" in this pattern.
Example: Joe gave Bill a kick.
Tom handed the doctor his chart.
SUBJECT - LINKING VERB - SUBSTANTIVE COMPLEMENT
(PREDICATE NOUN)

The linking verb is a specific kind of verb. Usually it is a form of the


verb be or a verb of the senses (feel, see, taste) If the verb is
followed by a SC, use a form of be, or become, or remain.
TEST: The S equals the SC.
Example: Jim is a doctor.
The linking verb may also be followed by an adjective which
modifies the subject.
TEST: Move the AC (pred. adj.) to the front of the sentence
before the subject.
Example: Jim feels good.
SUBJECT - PASSIVE VERB
The passive verb is a transformation of the transitive active
sentence. Use the following formula to form the passive verb: form
of be + the past participle form. The active sentence changes to
a passive sentence like this:
Active: Joe kicked Bill. Passive: Bill was kicked by Joe.
THE SUBSTANTIVE FUNCTION
The word substantive is used to include both nouns and noun
equivalents:
nouns-- common, Proper, collective
pronouns-- personal, indefinite, demonstrative, and the like
gerunds--verb form ending in -ing and functioning as a
noun
gerund phrases--gerund + modifier + object or
complement
infinitives--to + present from of verb
infinitive phrases--infinitive + modifiers + object or
complement
noun clauses-- dependent clauses [it has a subject and a
verb introduced by a subordinating conjunction, an
interrogative or indefinite relative pronoun/adjective/adverb]
functioning as a substantive in the sentence.

From Greek OXYS sharp, keen + MOROS foolish


NOUN COMPLEMENT is a word or group of words that modifies
a noun.
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE consists of a preposition, its object
and modifiers of the object.
The dog with black spots is RJ.
The boy in tattered clothes looks like my cousin.
My friends on the beach are having a good time.
INFINITIVE PHRASE -- consists of an infinitive, plus an object or
modifier.
Mother copied a recipe to guide her in her cooking.
She is the candidate to watch for.
Her lifetime dream is to seil around the world.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSEis a dependent clause that describes
noun/pronoun.
The books that I borrowed are mystery novels.
The woman is wearing a red dress is my aunt.
The store where his products are sold got robbed.
1. O miserable abundance,
O, beggarly riches!
2. A yawn may be defined as silent yell
3. Small crowd
4. ill health
5. Clearly misunderstood
6. O brawling love! O loving hate!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well seeming forms!
Feather or lead, bright smoke,
Cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel, that feel no love in this.
OXYMORON - a combination of words that have opposite
or very different meaning.

NAKAHARA
WHEN ALONE, THOUGHTS OF YOU LINGER IN
SEEMS LIKE TIME, ETERNALLY EXISTS,
YET RUNS OUT.
ITS A BLISS SORROWFULLY PORTRAYED
WHEN LOVE CYNICALLY BEARS HATRED
MUST CLING TIGHTLY TO NOTHING
CAUGHT EAGERLY CONTENTED BY DESTINY
MIND SET A WANDERING
TO MEMORIES OF OBLIVION
REMINISCE PAST, RELIVE, LOVE,TEAR FLESH
ABOUT TO HEAL
CHERISH CURSE OF SWEET PAIN-ECSTATIC ISNT IT!
LIVE HARD TODAY, LIVE LONG EACH DAY!
AM I WORTHY OF THIS PERENNIAL AGONY?
HOPE, EMOTIONS, CONSCIOUSNESS, SENSES--LET THESE DEPART
FOR IF NOT, FRESH BLOOD FLOWS
FROM FLESH ABOUT TO HEAL --TORN CONSTANTLY!
UNFAMILIAR WORDS
1. Linger - to remain alive although gradually dying
2. Bliss - completely happiness
3. Cling - to hold together
4. Cynically - bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous,
or pessimistic.
5. Eagerly marked by enthusiastic or impatient desire or
interest
6. Oblivion - the state of being completely forgotten or
unknown
7. Cherish to feel or show affection
8. Ecstatic - state of sudden, intense, overpowering emotion:
an ecstatic frenzy

9. Perennial - lasting or continuing throughout the entire year,


as a stream

10.Reminisce - to recall past experiences, events, etc.; indulge


in reminiscence.

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