English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

English Grammar
English Grammar - Sentence Structure and Transformation

Identify the pattern of the following sentence and choose the correct option : He left her everything he possessed.


Options:

  1. SVOO
  2. SVOA
  3. SVOCA
  4. SVOAA

Right Answer: SVOO

In ‘He left her everything he possessed’, ‘He’ is the subject and ‘left’ the finite verb. The verb ‘leave’ is here used ditransitively, that is with two objects: ‘her’ is the indirect object naming the person who benefits, and ‘everything he possessed’ is the direct object naming the thing transferred. The pattern is therefore Subject–Verb–Indirect Object–Direct Object, abbreviated SVOO. There is no adverbial of place, time or manner in the sentence, so patterns containing A are ruled out, and no word completes the meaning of an object, so there is no complement either.

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