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Questions to guide you through Shurley English: Patterns 1, 2 and 3
What is the subject that does something?
Who is the subject that does something?
Is the subject named, or given a “substitute name?” (pronoun)
What is the subject doing?
Does it do it to something else?
Are there small verbs helping a main verb?
Where does this happen? There must be a noun at the end of the
Subject Noun
Subject Pronoun
SN
SP
Verb
Verb transitive
Helping Verb
(prepositional phrase)
V
V-t
HV
begins with Preposition, ends
with Object of Preposition
(P
Direct Object
Indirect Object
Article Adjectives
DO
IO
A
Can you describe them? Color? Size? Number? Shape?
Are there any other descriptions?
Adjectives
Adj
Does anyone own those nouns? Do the nouns belong to anyone?
Are they named?
Are they given a “substitute” name?
Possessives
Possessive Noun Adjective
Possessive Pronoun
Adjective
PNA
PPA
Adverb
Adv
Adverb
Adv
not part of the sentence, but can be attached with a comma if the
feeling expressed is mild.
Interjection
I
Are there any parts of speech that are compound (more than one
for the same job?)
compound ________
C goes before
the job
abbreviation
prepositional phrase, and all objects are nouns. If there is no noun, then
you don’t have a preposition… see Adverbs below.
Does the action happen to something? (makes the Verb transitive)
Does anyone receive the Direct Object?
Look for Article Adjectives (a, an, the) always found near nouns
Look at the nouns (SN, SP, OP, DO, IO).
OP)
Look at the Verbs (V, V-t).
Can you describe the verb? How? When? Where? (be careful with
“Where?” If it is already used as a Preposition, it won’t be an Adverb.
It gets to be a Preposition only if it has an Object (noun) associated
with it.
Do any words describe Adjectives or other Adverbs?
Are there Interjections that introduce an idea? Remember, they are
If there are compounds, there must be a Conjunction (and).
Conjunctions can also link clauses in a compound sentence.
Remember FANBOYS (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
Type of sentence
(could be almost any part of speech)
Conjunction
C
Declarative (statement)
Exclamatory (exclamation)
Interrogative (question)
Imperative (command)
D
Ex
Int
Imp
Slash between subject and predicate (look for subject/verb)
/
Underline single under subject, double under predicate. Be careful
_____
about prepositional phrases, adverbs and helping verbs that can be
transplanted to the front of a sentence, but still belong to the verb!
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Sentence Pattern codes
Regular verb?
Direct Object?
Direct and Indirect Object?
SN V P1
SN V-t DO P2
SN V-t IO DO P3