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5 Subject → verb → indirect object → direct object

The dog gave me the ball. 

Some sentences have both a direct object and an indirect object. In this case, the indirect object comes right after the verb, and the direct object comes after the indirect object.

6 Subject → verb → direct object → object complement

• 6 Subject → verb → direct object → object complement

The dog made the ball dirty. 

Object complements come after the direct object, similar to other complements.

• 7 Subject → verb → direct object → adverbial complement

The dog perked its ears up. 

When the sentence uses both a direct object and an adverbial complement, the direct object comes first, followed by the adverbial complement. In this syntax example, up is the adverbial complement because it describes how the dog perked its ears. 

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Types of syntax: 4 sentence structures with syntax examples

• The syntactic patterns above can be used to form stand-alone sentences and individual clauses within a sentence. Both independent and subordinate clauses can be mixed and matched to form advanced sentences, which is ideal if you want to learn how to write better sentences. 
• There are only four types of sentence structures, which represent different combinations of independent and subordinate clauses. 

1 Simple: Includes the minimum requirements for a sentence, with just a single independent clause. 

• 1 Simple: Includes the minimum requirements for a sentence, with just a single independent clause. 

We go to the beach in summer. 

• 2 Complex: An independent clause combined with one or more subordinate clauses.

We go to the beach in summer when school is finished. 

• 3 Compound: Two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.