Basic English sentence structure

1 Overview of Word Order in English What is the order of an English sentence? Overall, the sentence structures in English are very flexible

Basic Sentence Structures · subject + verb · subject + verb + prepositional phrase · subject + verb + direct object · subject + verb + indirect object Janice

structure There are no commas separating any compound elements in simple sentences Complex Sentences A complex sentence is made up of a dependent clause joined to an

data structure There are four main types of sentence structures in English A simple sentence contains one independent clause A compound sentence consists of