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What is a sentence pattern? Sentence patterns describe what part of speech goes first, second, third, etc. What are various sentence patterns? There are more than ten sentence patterns. What are most common sentence patterns? Subject, verb, complement. Auxiliary verb, subject, main verb. What type of sentence can you write with subject, verb, and complement pattern? Question word questions. Declarative sentences. What types of sentences can you write with an auxiliary verb, subject, main verb pattern? Yes and no questions. Choice questions. How are sentence openers classified? As per purpose of sentence and per classes of words or their derivatives. How is learning about English language sentence openers different from words with example sentences in an English language dictionary? This is in context of the English language. Dictionaries do not describe openers. Dictionaries do not specify by example a sentence that is a sentence opener and its class of word, which is verb, which is complement or other combinations. While learning sentence openers, you also will learn sentence patterns. Sentence openers and sentence patterns are linked. Sentence openers, tenses, and sentence patterns are linked. There are some common and rare sentence openers. You first need to practice common sentence openers. Why do you need to be careful and practice word or words after a sentence opener? If you add a verb after a sentence opener that is subject or interrogative pronoun and a complement, it becomes a question. How are you? If you add a non-verb part of speech with complement after sentence opener that is a subject or interrogative pronoun, it can become a declarative sentence or even an exclamatory sentence. When (sentence opener) they had left, they began to discuss.(Declarative sentence) When (sentence opener) did they leave? (Question) You should practice sentence openers like question words followed by verb and complement to make a question. You should avoid sentence openers followed by word or words that are not verbs. You can make declarative, exclamatory sentences using question word as sentence openers followed by word or words that are not verbs. However, this needs extraordinary practice. Sentence openers like question words should be reserved for question word questions. If the sentence opener is a subject, what combination of verb and complement should be in sentence opener or subject, verb, and complement pattern? Intransitive adverbial modifier Linking adverbial complement Linking adjectival subject complement Linking nominal subject complement Transitive noun phrase (direct object) |