English sentence pattern with 4 elements : basic concept

Starting from this blog, you will learn a very simple way to create English sentences. What you need is just a key sentence pattern with four elements. First, we should understand the four elements, Noun, Verb, Adjective and Adverb. Even though we also see Preposition and Noun together, like 'in the room', they actually mean Adjective or Adverb. What about determiners (a, the) or auxiliary verbs (can, will)? Determiners always come with nouns so I include them in Noun element. On the other hand, auxiliary verbs always come with verbs so they belong to Verb element in my pattern. Let's look at some imperative sentences (without 'subject') and learn the functions of the four elements in each sentence. 

(I use vocabulary of different levels, from easy to difficult, so everyone can learn. Choose the examples that are right for your level.)

-Sit!

-Repeat the words in bold.

-Defend yourself.

-Accompany Tim to his room.

-Defriend those rude people now!

Next I  will analyze those elements in the examples above and point out their functions.

-Verb: sit, repeat, defend, accompany, defriend -which is used to express action or state

-Noun: the words, yourself, those people - which means someone or something

-Adj, Prep+N: in bold, rude - used to add more information to Noun and to describe Noun

-Adv, Prep+N: to his room, now - used to add more information to Verb, action or the whole sentence and to emphasize them

It's time for a complete sentence pattern with two main parts: subject and action/state. Subject is usually Noun and action/state always includes Verb. Adj and Adv are used to enrich a sentence by adding more information as mentioned before. I am going to build a sentence step by step as follows.

1. Those people will understand your points. 

-With only N (those people, your points) and V (will understand), a complete sentence is created.

2. Those people in this room will finally understand your points.

-Adding Adj (in this room) to describe Noun (those people)

-Adding Adv (finally) to emphasize V (understand) or action (understand your points)

3. Maybe those people in this room will finally understand your points.

-Adding Adv (maybe) to emphasize the whole sentence

 

[Reminder] Watch the video before starting reading the text and you can see all the pictures together if you click on one of them! You can also use the 'Translate' tool on the blog to help you understand the text. What's better, all the key vocabulary in my examples ranges from elementary to advanced levels (CEFR: A1~C2 / IELTS: 1~9) so you will learn a lot of English words if you keep studying each lesson. You will also benefit more if you use a dictionary to help you. Finally, don't forget to use English in daily life so all the grammar/vocabulary can be stored in your mind easier. While using this language, you are also learning from others and observing when is the appropriate context for different usages.