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Advanced Communication Skills Sukhvinder Kaur, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 10: Basic Sentence Patterns

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

10.1 Constructing Sentences: Basic Sentence Patterns
10.2 Basic Sentence Patterns
10.3 Steps in Identifying Basic Sentence Patterns

10.4 Six Sentence Patterns
10.5 The Sentence: Six Basic Patterns Built on Verb Types
10.6 Summary
10.7 Keywords
10.8 Self Assessment

10.9 Review Questions
10.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Explain the Basic sentence patterns

Discuss different types of sentences
Introduction

There are a number of common sentence patterns used to write most sentences in English. The
basic sentence patterns presented in this guide to sentence patterns will help you understand the
underlying pattern in even the most complex English sentences. Parts of speech are put together
to create sentence patterns in English. Quickly, the eight parts of speech are Noun, Pronoun,
Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Conjunction and Preposition

10.1 Constructing Sentences: Basic Sentence Patterns

A sentence in English usually names the subject of the sentence (the person or thing doing the
action) and then offers a comment or assertion about that subject. That comment is known
grammatically as a predicate.

Example: The sections of a sentence used as examples where there are more than one
item are formatted as noted, otherwise examples are italic.

In the sentence “He left,” He is the subject and left is the predicate.
A subject can be a word, a phrase, a clause, or a combination. A predicate must always include a
verb.

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