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In English, the most common construction of a sentence is subject - verb - object.

Subject - In grammar ‘subject’ means the person or thing responsible for doing something. The subject is always a noun - London, the cat, Mike, my car… or a subject pronoun - I,you, he, she, it, we, they, you(pl) and it always comes before the verb in this construction.

Verb - A verb is a ‘doing’ word or an action - something that is caused or done by something else - the subject. Verbs can be used to tell us the time of an event (the tense) as well as what happened (the action) can be more than one word depending on the tense. The verb must agree with the subject - I go, you go, he goes…

Object - The object ‘receives’ the verb. Like the subject, this is always a noun London, the cat, Mike, my car… or an object pronoun - me, you, him, her, it, us, them, you (pl) and it comes after the verb.

Let’s see some examples:

subject verb object

Kerry > watches > television

I > love > you

We > write > letters

Criminals > steal > cars

Here the arrows indicate the ‘direction’ of the action – from subject through the verb, to the object.

Task 1
Put the subject, verb and object in the correct order, don’t forget to put a capital letter for the first word of the sentence. Some are already correct.

1. he me likes

2. us teaches she

3. Charles reads books

4. me the cat scratched

5. use computers they

6. don’t eat we meat

7. she loves it

8. you didn’t tell I

9. the door opened he

10. watches they buy

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EVOLVE Educational Vocational Objective Learning of Vernacular English

Intermediate Writing: Subject Verb Object

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