Bài giảng Tiếng Anh - Sentence Patterns (Summary) - Trương Văn Ánh

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1. Sentence Patterns (Summary) Trương Văn Ánh Trường Đại học Sài Gòn
2. • Main elements: Subject, Verb, Complement, Object (Direct Object, Indirect Object) • Subordinate (minor) elements: Attribute (modifying nouns), Adverb (modifying verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, clauses and whole sentences)
3. • Pattern 1: S + Be + C (Adj /Prep. Phr.) • Pattern 2: S + Be + C (Adv) • Pattern 3: S + Be + C (N) • Pattern 4: S + Vl + C (Adj) • Pattern 5: S + Vl + C (N) • Pattern 6: S + Vi [intransitive] • Pattern 7: S + Vt + DO [monotransitive] • Pattern 8: S + Vt + IO + DO [ditransitive]
4. • Pattern 9: S + Vt + DO + a. C (N) • b. C (Adj) • c. C (Pro) • d. C (Adv) • e. C (Pre. Part.) • f. C (Past Part.) • g. C (Prep Phrase) • h. C (Inf. Phrase / To BE) • i. C (bare infinitive phr)
5. The nine above sentence patterns include only main elements (Subject, Verb, Object, Complement, and Object). There are two kinds of Complements: Subject Complements (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and Object Complements (9). There are also two kinds of Objects (Direct Object/thing and Indirect Object/person) Besides main elements, there are two minor elements to enlarge sentences: Attribute (modifying nouns) and Adverb (modifying verbs, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, clauses and whole sentences).
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