1. Basic Sentence Patterns with Intransitive Verbs
Lesson 3
Basic Sentence Patterns with Intransitive Verbs

2. The Sentence Subject and verb relationship
Basic unit of meaning (written and oral)

3. Sentence Patterns Five basic patterns Verb determines pattern
Intransitive
Transitive

4. The Five Basic Sentence Patterns
S Iv
S Iv SC
S Tv DO
S Tv IO DO
S Tv DO OC

5. The Five Basic Sentence Patterns
Doug stumbled.
Doug is a goofball.
Doug kicked pinecones.
Doug gave Mary a kiss.
Doug called Mary beautiful.

6. Sentence Patterns Verb is key to recognizing patterns
Intransitive Verb
Transitive Verb

7. Lesson 3
Basic Patterns with Intransitive Verbs
S Iv
S Iv SC

8. Sentence Pattern 1 S Iv. Doug stumbled.
Action of the verb stops with the verb.
No action transfers across the verb to an object because there is no object.

9. Sentence Pattern 2 2. S Iv SC. Doug is a goofball.
No action transfers across the verb to an object because there is no object.
Instead, there is a connection. The complement either renames or modifies the subject.
The verb links the subject to its complement.

10. Lesson 3 Again, the Two Basic Patterns with Intransitive Verbs
Doug stumbled.
Doug is a goofball.

11. More About Sentence Pattern 2
2. S Iv SC. Doug is a goofball.
The intransitive verb in this pattern is usually a form of the verb “to be”: is, are, was, were, etc. They express states of being.
In this pattern the “to be” verbs are called linking verbs.
To be verbs can also function as auxiliary (helping) verbs in verb phrases (to be studied in a later lesson).

12. Even More About Sentence Pattern 2
2. S Iv SC. Doug became a goofball.
Intransitive verb in this pattern can also be the following:
Feel, seem, appear
Become, turn, grow, get
Look, smell, taste, feel, sound

13. Which is Correct?
I feel bad.
I feel badly.

14. Three More Basic Sentence Patterns
S Iv
S Iv SC
S Tv DO
S Tv IO DO
S Tv DO OC

15. Lesson 4 Basic Patterns with Transitive Verbs S Tv DO S Tv IO DO
S Tv DO OC

16. Basic Sentence Patterns With Transitive Verbs
Doug kicked pinecones.
Doug gave Mary a kiss.
Doug called Mary beautiful.

17. Sentence Pattern 3 2. S Tv DO. Doug kicked pinecones.
Action transfers across the verb to an object . What was kicked? pinecones
Objects of transitive verbs can be nouns or pronouns.

18. Sentence Pattern 4 2. S Tv IO DO. Doug gave Mary a kiss.
IO indirectly receives action of verb.
What was given? A kiss.
To whom was it given? Mary

19. Sentence Pattern 5 2. S Tv DO OC. Doug called Mary beautiful.
OC describes or renames the Direct Object.