Do English sentences fall into recurring patterns?

Yes, they do. Over 90 per cent of all English sentences fall into one of the following six patterns:

• Subject - intransitive verb
• Subject - transitive verb - direct object
• Subject - linking verb - complement
• Subject - linking verb - predicate adverb
• Subject - transitive verb - indirect object - direct object
• Subject - transitive verb - direct object - objective complement

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