The sentence pattern

The sentence pattern

by Shreya Kumari -
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I looked at the sentence and used the SVOMPT pattern to break it down. The pattern stands for Subject – Verb – Object – Manner – Place – Time.


For example, in the sentence “She ate noodles quickly at home last night,” the SVOMPT table looks like this:


S (Subject) – She


V (Verb) – ate


O (Object) – noodles


M (Manner) – quickly


P (Place) – at home


T (Time) – last night


This helped me understand how sentence parts are ordered in English. Looking forward to seeing how others did it!