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English 9 Grammar
2009-2010
Myers
Grammar Strategies
Connect the Part of the Speech to the Part
of the Sentence.
Connect the Part of the Sentence to
sentence variety and word choice.
Discover how author’s use of sentence
variety and word choice to add depth to
his/her writings.
So What?
Connect Grammar to Grammar (Parts of
Speech to Parts of a Sentence).
Connect Grammar to Writing (Part of the
Sentence to sentence variety and word
choice).
Connect Grammar to Literature (how
author’s use of sentence variety and word
choice to add depth to his/her writings).
Parts of Speech
 Noun
Pronoun
 Verb
 Adjective
 Adverb
 Preposition
 Conjunction
 Interjection
 Article
Sentence Patterns
There are SIX types of sentences; ALL
sentences fall into one of these types of
patterns.
(1) S + V
(2) S + V + DO
(3) S + V + IO + DO
(4) S + V + DO + OC
(5) S + LV + PNom.
(6) S + LV + PAdj.
Pattern 1 = S + V
Example: The dog ran.
Art. S + V
What ALWAYS follows an article?
NOUN
Other examples of S + V
Let’s Add Color to S + V
The dog ran.
What can we add to the sentence to make
it better, but not change the sentence
pattern?
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositional Phrases
They are seated with their guests –
army officers and government
attaches and their wives, and a
visiting American naturalist—in
their spacious dining room, which
has a bare marble floor, open
rafters, and wide glass doors
opening onto a veranda.
-The Dinner Party
What sentence pattern is this?
What is the subject?
What is the verb?
What is everything else in the sentence?
Sentence Pattern 2
S – V – DO
Example: The man played basketball.
S (man) – V (played) – DO (basketball).
NOTE: DO will always answer who?,
what?, or where? of the verb.
The man played what? Basketball (DO)
Sentence Pattern 3
S – V – IO – DO
Example: Sarah made me a cake.
S (Sarah) – V (made) – IO (me) – DO
(cake).
NOTE: The IO will always answer to
whom/what? or for whom/what?
Sarah made what? Cake (DO). For whom? Me
(IO). Find the DO first, then the IO.
Sentence Pattern 4
S – V – DO – OC
An objective compliment comes after a DO
renaming or describing the DO.
Example: They painted the door the color
red.
S (They) – V (painted) – DO (door) – OC
(red).
Sentence Pattern 5
S – LV – PN
The PN renames the Subject.
Example: Sarah is my sister.
S (Sarah) – LV (is) – PN (sister).
NOTE: There can only be a PN with a
linking verb, never with an action verb.
Sentence Pattern 6
S – LV – PA
The PA describes the Subject.
Example: My sister is beautiful.
S (Sister) – LV (is) – PA (beautiful).
NOTE: There is only a PA with a linking
verb, never with a action verb.