BASIC SENTENCE PATTERN

Verb: A verb is a part of speech that tells about an action or a state. It is the main part of a sentence: every sentence has a verb.Verb is a word which describe the main action in a sentence. For example: 1. Can you play harmonium? 2. Arsh reads the story. In the above sentences words, 'play' and 'reads' are the verbs because they tell us what action is going on.

Subject: The subject is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing something in the sentence. You can find the subject of a sentence if you can find the verb. The verb is the action and the subject is who does that action in a particular sentence. Examples: 1. They are very rich. 2. During class Richard slept on his bench. 3. Mary went to the audition. In the above examples words 'They', 'Richard' and 'Mary' are subjects.

Object: According to traditional English grammar object in a sentence is an entity that is acted upon by the subject in other words you can say that action taken by subject in any sentence affects the object. Examples: 1. Nobody writes letters nowadays. 2. Does she play Hockey? 3. He gave dinner to dog. In above sentences words 'letters', 'Hockey', and 'dog' are objects.