Subject Verb David The dog Susan sings barked yawnedIn this pattern, the verb is not followed by any Object, and we refer to this as an intransitive verb. If the verb is monotransitive, it takes a Direct Object, which follows the verb Pattern 2 Subject Verb Direct Object David The professor The jury sings wants found ballads to retire the defendant guilty In the ditransitive pattern, the verb is followed by an Indirect Object and a Direct Object, in that order Pattern 3 Subject Verb Indirect Object Direct Object The old man My uncle The detectives gave sent asked the children me Amy some money a present lots of questions Adjuncts are syntactically peripheral to the rest of the sentence. They may occur at the beginning and at the end of a sentence, and they may occur in all three of the patterns above
