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Pattern 1 (Noun + Verb): The man teaches.
Pattern 2 (Noun + Verb + Adverb or Prepositional Phrase): My brother works in a factory.
Pattern 3 (Noun + Verb + Noun): That Professor teaches English.
Pattern 4 (Noun + Verb + Noun + Noun): The man teaches the boys English.
Pattern 5 (Noun + Verb + Noun + Adjective or Noun): That man called the teacher a genius.
Pattern 6 (Noun + LV (linking verb) + Noun): The man is a teacher.
Pattern 7 (Noun + LV + Adjective, Adverb or Prepositional Phrase): That man is intelligent.
Pattern 8 (There + LV + Noun + Adverb or Prepositional Phrase): There is a teacher in the classroom.
Pattern 9 (It + LV + Adjective, Adverb, Noun, or Prepositional Phrase): It is morning.
Exercise:
Analyze each of the following sentences. Identify each one by its sentence pattern number. List the sentence
elements that make up the pattern. Underline and identify the subjects, predicates and complements you find in
the sentences. Look out for compound subjects and compound predicates.
Example: Perhaps you wear a watch.
(Pattern 3. Noun + Verb + Noun)
(1) There was always a great need to tell the time.
(2) It was important.
(3) Early man used the sun and marked shadows of trees.
(4) Perhaps the shadow was short. Noon was near.
(5) Such clocks were satisfactory for a number of years.
(6) Then some clever person gave us the sundial.
(7) A sundial works fine on sunny days. But some days are dark and cloudy.
(8) Another inventor developed the water clock.
(9) In it, water ran from one vessel to another.
(10) The amount of water indicated the time.
(11) A modern hourglass is similar to the old water clock.
(12) Sand instead of water flows through an hourglass. But the principle is the same.
(13) Alfred the Great of England invented another method.
(14) Alfred's method was a candle with markings on it.
(15) The candle burned. Its markings indicated the time.
(16) In the fourteenth century, a German invented a clock.
(17) It contained many of the parts of a modern clock.
(18) Historians should consider that Germen were one of the greatest contributors to our civilization.
(19) He made possible our watches of today.
(20) We owe him recognition.
II. EXPANDED SIMPLE SENTENCES
Below is a review of the Expanded Simple Sentence Patterns:*
* See Unit 2 of Appendix [Section V of Part II] for a full presentation of the expanded simple sentence patterns.
Pattern l (Noun + Verb )
(Subject + Verb)
Example: The man teaches.
The tall man over there usually teaches every day at my school.
Pattern 2 (Noun + Verb + Adverb/Prepositional Phrase)
(Subj. + Verb + Complement)
Example: My brother works in a factory
My hopelessly lazy brother grudgingly works in a modern, well-designed, and well-managed shoe factory.
Pattern 3 (Noun + Verb + Noun)
(Subj. + Verb + DO [Direct Object])