Heyo Pwips! Let’s look at our two new sentence patterns!

So far we’ve had the following patterns:

S-V

S-V-SC

S-V-DO

S-V-DO-OC

S-V-IO-DO

This chapter, we are adding 2 more:

S-V-AC

S-V-DO-AC

Remember that AC stands for “adverbial complement”. The difference between these two sentence patterns is that one (S-V-AC) represents a sentence with an intransitive verb, and the other (S-V-DO-AC) represents a sentence with a transitive verb. Remember that a transitive verb always has direct objects (DO). Oppositely, an intransitive verb does not.

Examples:

Snoopy crept under the bed.

This sentence is an example of S-V-AC with the PrepPhr “under the bed” functioning as an AC.

Charlie Brown kicked the football into the tree.

This sentence is an example of S-V-DO-AC with “the football” functioning as DO, and “into the tree” functioning as AC.