I read Simple Sentence Analysis Example and Simple Sentence Patterns for 12 mins and made this post in 17 minutes.
Simple Sentence Analysis Example
This analysis demonstrates everything covered so far.
The man with dark brown hair excitedly threw a little rock at the target.
Action verb: threw.
Subject: man.
Object: rock.
“Excitedly” modifies “threw”.
The first “the” modifies “man”.
“A” modifies “rock”.
“Little” modifies “rock”.
The analysis looked pretty straightforward. First the verb was found, then the subject, then the object, and at the end the modifiers.
Prepositional phrase: “with dark brown hair”. This functions as an adjective which modifies “man”. The preposition is “with” and it governs the noun “hair”. It relates hair and man by telling us that the man has hair. It also tells us the type of hair (dark brown).
More detail seems to be given for analyzing the prepositional phrase. That makes sense cuz there’s more going on with prepositional phrases. Like the preposition relates two things and it tells us more about what the sentence is about.
Conclusions: The sentence is about a man throwing a little rock. The throwing was excited. The man had dark brown hair. He threw the rock at the target.
I see that analyzing the sentence lets us split what’s happening into smaller pieces.
Simple Sentence Patterns
I now present the two simple sentence patterns:
- Subject + Action Verb + Object (noun or nothing)
- Subject + Linking Verb + Complement (noun or adjective)
I was reading this part out loud cuz I think it helps me remember the two patterns. It was hard reading it in my head.
(“there” is called an expletive)
I looked up expletive, and I didn’t know there were literal filler words in english. I wonder why I use them a lot like they feel more natural to me in a conversation.
In the question, “Are you a philosopher?”, the subject (you) is to the right of the verb (are), but the pattern of verb, subject and object (or complement) is still used.
That makes sense. You could even find the two simple sentence patterns even in questions.