1. What is S.V.O.?

S.V.O. = subject + verb + object

S.V.O. is the most common sentence pattern in English.

2. What are subjects, verbs, and objects?

A subject does something.
example: The man kicked the ball.

A verb is what is done, sometimes called a doing word.
example: The man kicked the ball.

An object has something done to it.
example: The man kicked the ball.

3. Subject pronouns and object pronouns

When the subject is I, you, he, she, it, we, or they, we use the subject pronoun.
However, when these are the object, they change to the object pronoun.

Subject Pronouns	Object Pronouns
I	me
you	you
he	he
she	her
it	it
we	us
they	them

Other nouns can be subjects or objects, such as ‘cat’, ‘house’, or ‘pen’.

4. Verbs are important

There are thousands of verbs, including: be, go, like, say, write, kiss, walk, eat…
Verbs tell us what the subject is doing.

Subject	Verb	Object
You	eat like hate buy steal throw give take	the cake.

Verbs also tell us when the subject did it. This is because verbs change for the past, present, and future (for example: ate (past); eat (present); will eat (future).

5. Examples of S.V.O. sentences

Subject	Verb	Object	Sentence
I	like	you.	I like you.
She	kissed	him.	She kissed him.
They	are	doctors.	They are doctors.
We	will eat	pizza.	We will eat pizza.
You	paint	pictures.	You paint pictures.
It	killed	my cat.	It killed my cat.

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