The Five Basic Sentence Structures

There's a nearly infinite number of ways you can structure a sentence. But at the very heart of any sentence lie just five basic structures: subject + intransitive verb; subject + transitive verb + direct object; subject plus transitive verb plus indirect object plus direct object; subject + copular verb = complement of the copular verb; and subject + transitive verb plus direct object + object complement

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