Clause Components & Patterns

Course Description

Writing meaningful sentences correctly is the goal of any learner of grammar. This online course analyses independent clause and teaches you how to write meaningful and correct simple sentences. The knowledge gathered by doing the course will help you face competitive exams like varsity admission, IELTS, TOEFL, etc. Besides, you will feel confident while doing any further grammar course of university level.

Course Lessons

Lesson 1: Introduction

This first lesson provides an overview of the course.

• Lesson 1 Video
• Lesson discussion: Reason for taking the course.
• Pre-test

Lesson 2: Independent Clause

This lesson tells you what an assertive simple sentence or independent clause is. 

• Lesson 2 Video
• Practice Worksheet
• Exercise 1: Identify the assertive sentence.
• Exercise 2: Identify independent clause.
• Exercise 3: Form simple sentences

Lesson 3: Clause Components

In this lesson, you will learn what five components make a sentence and where they appear.

• Lesson 3 Video
• Exercise 1: Identify the finite verb.
• Exercise 2: Identify the subject.
• Exercise 3: Identify the object.
• Exercise 4: Identify the complement.
• Exercise 5: Identify the adjunct. 

Lesson 4: Finite Verb

This lesson will teach you what a finite verb is, which 26 forms they have and how to identify and use them in the sentence. 

• Lesson 4 Video
• Exercise 1: Finite Verb 
• Exercise 1: Finite verb phrase
• Exercise 2: Tensed forms active
  
• Exercise 3: Tensed forms passive
• Exercise 4: Conjugate the verb 'go.'
• Exercise 5: Conjugate the verb 'do' in passive.

Lesson 5: Noun Phrase

This lesson deals with the forms and patterns of noun phrases, the components that make a noun phrase and where noun phrases are used. 

• Lesson 5 Video
• Exercise 1: Structure of Noun Phrase
• Exercise 2: Determiner + Noun
• Exercise 3: Premodifier + Noun
• Exercise 4: Noun + Postmodifiers
• Exercise 5: Premodifier + Noun + Postmodifier

Lesson 6: Subjects

• Lesson 6 Video
• Exercise 1: Noun as Subject 
• Exercise 2: Pronoun as Subject
• Exercise 3: Gerund as Subject
• Exercise 4: Infinitive as Subject
• Exercise 5: Pronoun as Subject
• Exercise 6: Noun Phrase as Subject

Lesson 7: Objects

• Lesson 7 Video
• Exercise 1: Noun as Object 
• Exercise 2: Pronoun as Object
• Exercise 3: Gerund as Object
• Exercise 4: Infinitive as Object
• Exercise 5: Noun Phrase as Object
  
• Exercise 6: Direct Object after Mono transitive Verbs
• Exercise 7: Direct Objects after Ditransitive Verbs
• Exercise 8: Indirect Objects

Lesson 8: Subject Complement

• Lesson 8 Video
• Exercise 1: Linking Verbs
• Exercise 2: Adjective as Subject Complements
• Exercise 3: Adverbial as Subject Complements
• Exercise 4: Noun as Subject Complements
• Exercise 4: Pronoun as Subject Complements
• Exercise 4: Noun Phrase as Subject Complements

Lesson 9: Object Complements

• Lesson 9 Video
• Exercise 1: Verbs that follow object complements.
• Exercise 2: Adjective as Object Complements
• Exercise 3: Noun Phrase as Object Complements

Lesson 10: Adjuncts 

• Lesson 9 Video
• Exercise 1: What is adjunct
• Exercise 2: Position of Adverbs
• Exercise 3: Types of Adverbs
• Exercise 4: Adverbial Phrase 
  
• Exercise 5: Prepositional Phrase as adverbials
• Exercise 6: Infinitive Phrase as adverbials
• Exercise 7: Noun Phrase as Adverbials

Lesson 11: Structures

9 Patterns of Independent Clause/ Simple Sentence

Lesson 12: NP1 + Be + Adjective

Subject + Linking Verb + Subject Complement (Adjective)

Lesson 13: NP1 + Be + Adverb

Subject + Linking Verb + Subject Complement (Adverb)