Sentence Patterns

[peter_isreborned@yaho.com]

What are the basic sentence pattern in English? And please give their meaning with sentences. Please put where the subject and the like on top of words.

[Casiopea]

1. subject + intransitive verb:
They swim.

2. subject + transitive verb + direct object:
They eat cake.

3a. subject + di-transitive verb + direct object + indirect object
They gave money to the charity.
3b. subject + di-transitive verb + indirect object + direct object
They gave the charity money.

4. subject + verb + direct object + object complement
They call him Mr Smith.

5. subject + linking verb + subject complement
They are teachers. ('teachers' is a noun, so it's called a predicate nominal)
They seem happy. ('happy' is an adjective, so it's called a predicate adjective)
They were upstairs. ('upstairs' is an adverb; it tells us "where")

6. Existential there + verb + subject + preposition of location
There is a cat on the table.

I believe those are all the basic patterns.

[darius]

Thanks so much Casiopea for your help with Sentence patterns, it did help me a lot!
Bye, darius