Basic Sentence Patterns
Pattern – 1

Subject + Intransitive verb + Adverbials
Ex.
1. He Sings Well
2. You laughed loudly

Pattern – 2

Ex. Sub + Linking verb + Complement
1. They were happy.
2. She is a teacher.
Pattern – 3

Sub + Transitive verb + Direct object + Adverbial
1. Sachin scored a century
2. He has read this book.
Pattern – 4

Subject + Transitive verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object + Adverbials
1. I gave my friend a present on his birthday.
2. The teacher asked him a question.
Exercise (Elementary)

Arrange the following words in the order subject + Intransitive verb + Adverbials. Start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.
1. Ravi / with a pen / writes
2. in the east / the sun / rises
3. The bus / late / arrived
4. Ran / fast / he
5. studied / in the room / children
6. He / over the wall / jumped
7. Heavily / it / rained
8. Well / she / sings
9. Laughed / loudly /He
10. Rohit / there / sat
11. Sanjay / loud / spoke
12. The Scooter / fast /runs
13. Begins / my college /in July
14. Went /Home /they
15. on the ice / Ravi / slipped

Exercise (Intermediate)

Arrange the words in the order.
Subject + linking verb + complements.
1. Are/ busy / the boys
2. tall / my brother / is
3. Ravi / happy / appeared
4. feel / they / annoyed
5. Sad / seemed / he
6. this boy / seems / restless
7. smells / the rose / sweet
8. bitter / this fruit / taste
9. upstairs / is / my / brother
10. must have been / the party / enjoyable
11. were / in the library / they
12. on Sunday / the examination / will be
13. Mahatma Gandhi / a great leader / was
14. my brother / a doctor / became
15. they /quiet / remained
Exercise (Intermediate)

Arrange the words in the order.
Subject + Transitive verb + Direct Object / Indirect object + Adverbials (if any)
1. A coat / you / need
2. Have started / the game / they
3. the Principal / he / yesterday / met
4. Scored / a century / Sachin
5. my mother / a story / tells / me / every night
6. The problem / carefully/ I / explained
7. Football / don’t like / very much / I
8. Harish / very well / English / doesn’t speak
9. We / at the airport / some friends / met
10. I / In bed / this morning / my break fast / had
11. Ravi / last month / this picture / painted
12. us / teaches / English / Mr. Sharma
13. passed / John/ easily / the exam
14. A lot of work / did / I / yesterday
15. two / letters / I / this morning / wrote

Exercise (Advanced)

Write one sentence for each of the sentence patterns.
1. Sub + Intransitive verb
2. Subject +Liking verb + Complement
3. Subject + Transitive verb + Direct object
4. Subject + Transitive verb + Indirect object+ Direct object
5. Subject + Transitive verb + Direct object + compliment
6. Subject + Intransitive verb + Adverb
7. Subject + Liking verb + Compliment
8. Subject + Transitive verb + Direct object
9. Subject + Transitive verb + Direct object + Indirect Object
10. Subject + Transitive verb + Direct object + Compliment
 

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