Sentence Pattern : Noun + Linking Verb + Adjective
Noun phrase
Subject Linking verb Subjective Complement
Water is necessary
Crops are poor
Sentence Pattern : Noun + Linking verb + Adverbial
Noun Phrase
Subject Noun Linking verb Subjective Complement Adverbial (s)
Dorothy is not here now
She is on her way downtown
The office is on the corner
Time and Place Adverbial with Be
Notice that the only linking verb used in this pattern is be and that the adverbial may be either and adverb or a prepositional phrase. Only time and place adverbials are used in this pattern. (Adverbs of manner are used with action verbs.) Remember that both time and place adverbial occur in the same sentence, adverbials, of place go before adverbials of time.
Dorothy will be there on time.
She must be at the Doctor’s office at 3:00
Time Adverbials and Verb Tense
Observe the adverbs that have been used throughout this lesson and study the relationship between them and the tense of the verb in each sentences summarizes by example the relationship between verb tenses and adverbials.
He is here today.
He was here yesterday
Notice that present adverbials are used with the present tense, past with the past, and future. Adverbial prepositional phrase with since are used only with the present perfect, has been in this case. Ago is used with the simple past tense. Prepositional phrase with for may be used with the simple past only when a definite past time is specified. These rules apply to all sentences patterns with adverbial.
Additional Time Adverbial
Observe the following pairs of sentences:
Dorothy will be here by 9.00
She must be here in time for her appointment.
The There Transformation
The noun + linking verb + adverbial
There + linking verb + noun + adverbial
Many people were in the park last Sunday.
There were many people in the park last Sunday.
Sentence Pattern: Noun + Linking Verb + Noun
Noun Phrase Verb Phrase
Subject Noun Linking Verb Subjective Complement Noun
My name is Joseph
I am a student
The subjective complement
If the complement is a personal pronoun, it will be a nominative cases form in careful writing
And formal speech, but may be an objective case form in informal conversation.
Informal : Who’s that? Its me,
Formal : Who answered the telephone? It was I
Professions
A principal use of this pattern is to indicate a person’s profession or occupation.
Ms. Janik is a lawyer.
My cousin Michael is a student.
Often., the names of professions and occupations are formed by changing verbs into nouns.
Mr. Jacobson paints.
He is a painter
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