What is a Sentence Pattern ?

To write English perfectly one should know what is a sentence pattern. Different sentence patterns with ample examples and exercise are given here. Only reading and no practice will not do the job. Feel free to comment if you want to practice more.

Studying sentence patterns will help us to make new sentences correctly. We need to make new sentences while speaking or writing. So we will study sentence patterns. There are five common patterns. A sentence contains components like subject, verb, object and complement.

Sentence Pattern

Subject + Verb

1. Birds fly.
2. Cuckoo sings.
3. It was raining.
4. A herd of cattle was grazing.

Subject + Verb + Object.

1. I read a story.
2. She composed an E-mail.
3. Women are fetching water.
4. He whatsapped me.

Subject + Verb + Complement.

1. He is handsome.
2. The grass is green.
3. It is a book.
4. Ramesh went to school.

Subject + Verb + Object + Complement

1. Student’s council made Jane Editor.
2. The company made Rakesh Satpute General Manager.
3. It has made me very happy.
4. The Headmaster appointed me as Supervisor.

Subject + Verb + Object + Object

1. My sister bought me a doll.
2. Shyamkant Pimpalkar teaches us English.
3. I will send Ashish Derkar an E-mail.
4. Chandan gave the King an advice.

Subject+Verb+adjective

Ramesh is rich.

Rose is beautiful.

Sky is blue.

Subject+ Verb+ Adverb

1. Manoj speaks fluently.
2. Harsh plays smoothly.
3. It rains heavily.

Types of Verbs

Read the following table and frame as many sentences as possible using the above sentence patterns.

Subject	Verbs	Objects	Complements	adverb	adjective
Sachin	(be) am, is, are, was, were	patient	red	loudly	rich
I, We, He, You, They	have, has, had	English	attractive	sweetly	yellow
Reshma	eat, eats	flyover	good	greedily	sour
Apple	teaches, teach	newspaper	doctor	skillfully	handsome
Doctor	builds, build, built	cricket	student	joyfully	beautiful
Engineers	laughs	grammar	nice		sweet
People	learn, (be) learning	player			fat
Website	play, plays	stories			useful
Teacher	examine	oranges
Students	read, reads	roads