More Practice with Sentence Patterns:
| Seven Sentence Patterns (as found in Jeff Glauner's Essentials of Grammar: A Textbook for Teachers, Editors, Secretaries, Writers, and Other Semiwilling Curmudgeons) | ||
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Pattern 1 |
Subject + Vi |
Subject + Vi + [Nothing* follows the verb.] |
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Pattern 2 |
Subject + Vt+ DO |
Subject + Vt+ NOUN |
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Pattern 3 |
Subject + Vt + IO + DO |
Subject + Vt + NOUN + NOUN |
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Pattern 4 |
Subject + VL + SC-Adj |
Subject + VL + ADJECTIVE |
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Pattern 5 |
Subject + VL + SC-Nom |
Subject + VL + NOUN |
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Pattern 6 |
Subject +Vt +DO+OC-Adj |
Subject +Vt +NOUN+ADJECTIVE |
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Pattern 7 |
Subject +Vt +DO+OC-Nom |
Subject +Vt +NOUN+NOUN |
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*Ignore adverbs! You may find it helpful to let the Basic Sentence Types Maze walk you through the decisions you need to make to identify a sentence type. If you don't understand an answer after you click on it and look at the sentence again, the sentence pattern notes may be helpful. |
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3. Winning ballgames makes a coach popular.
4. Winning teams are popular with their fans.
5. Birthday cards bring happiness.
7. Hanes Park is a small park with many tennis courts.
8. The tennis center makes Hanes Park a busy place.
9. University Day will give us a chance to catch our breath.
10. Student elections are very interesting.
11. Candidates put posters up all over campus.
12. Most of the posters include a picture of the candidate.
13. Some candidates smile brightly.
14. Some candidates look serious.
15. After the elections, candidates should remove posters from the campus.
16. After events, everyone should remove advertisements from bulletin boards.
17. Sonia Sanchez came to WSSU on October 24. (note)
18. She read us some of her poems.
19. Sonia Sanchez is a very good contemporary poet.
20. We need air conditioning in this warm weather.
21. Dogwoods and redbud trees make North Carolina beautiful in spring. (note)
22. April is the cruelest month. (note)
23. Winter kept us warm. (note)
24. T. S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land.
25. First-time readers usually find The Waste Land difficult.
If you do not understand why one of these sentences fits a particular pattern, you may find help in the sentence pattern notes. If there's no help (or not enough help) there, e-mail me at the address below or ask your own instructor for help (if you are not in one of my classes).
