Robert lives in an apartment.
He loves his job.
His wife teaches college courses.
They work in the mornings.
|
Sentence |
Subject (S) |
Verb (V) |
Object (O) |
Manner (M) |
Place (P) |
Time (T) |
|
Robert lives in an apartment. |
Robert |
lives |
— |
— |
in an apartment |
— |
|
He loves his job. |
He |
loves |
his job |
— |
— |
— |
|
His wife teaches college courses. |
His wife |
teaches |
college courses |
— |
— |
— |
|
They work in the mornings. |
They |
work |
— |
— |
— |
in the mornings |
This activity helped me see that not all sentences contain every part of the SVOMPT pattern, but the order still follows Standard English structure. I’m interested to see how my classmates organized their sentences and whether they identified different parts like manner or place.