Sentence Pattern (1)

	Sentence pattern	Example
1	Subject (S) + Verb (V)	Time flies. Birds sing.
1.1	There be + S	There is a man. There are some apples.
1.2	It + V + S	It doesn't matter what you think. It happened that he was short of money.
2	S + V + Complement (C)	He is a rich man. This is my brother.
2.1	It + S + V + C	It is silly to talk like that.
3	S + V + Adverb complement (AC)	The glove must be somewhere or other. There are forty students in my class.