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Old 19-Nov-2003, 00:07
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Before I begin, I want to compliment you on your English.

I think you are overreading the intent of the five basic sentence patterns. None of the basic five have modifiers listed. That is most likely a leftover from diagraming sentences. In that scheme, modifiers were depicted below the main sentence line.

Certainly S-V-adverbial is not an uncommon sentence pattern;
nor is S-V-O-adverbial. These are both covered under S-V and S-V-O.
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