We can modify a basic sentence pattern by adding noun phrases, determiners, adverbs and other elements. Fire burns. -> The fire burns. Dog barks. ->… Continue reading
Sentence pattern – part II
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Three ways of expressing the same idea
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In many sentences you will find an agent (the person or thing who does something) and a recipient (the person or thing that something is… Continue reading
Verb + object + complement
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Some transitive verbs can be followed by an object together with an object complement which is usually an expression that gives more information about the… Continue reading
More about object complements
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Some transitive verbs can be followed by an object together with an object complement (an expression that gives more information about the object). The object… Continue reading
Inversion of subject and verb
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In English, the usual order of words in a sentence is subject + verb + object. Sometimes certain adverbs come at the beginning of the… Continue reading