Word order: subject, verb, obejct

1. In English, the order of words in a statement is subject + verb+ object:

Subject + Verb + Object

I enjoy good food

Peter is watching Tv.

She drank a cup of coffee

2. Some verbs (e.g. like) always need an object:

Subject + Verb + Object

I like music

She wants a drink

3. After the verb be, we can use an object or an adjective:

She is a doctor--------> object

Mary is tired---------> adjective

We can also put adjectives after the verbs look, seem and feel.

Mary looks tired

4. now look at this example:

John gave Mary an apple.

John gave her an apple.

After some verbs (e.g. give, send, bring), we can talk about a person (Mary, her) and an object:

Verb + Person + Object

He sent Jane a book

Ann made Tom a cup of tea

Ann brought him a cup of tea.

He left them some money

She wrote him a letter

5. We usually put information about times or places at the end of the sentence:

I had a holiday in Spain----->Place

They gave their son a watch yesterday----->time

Nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.

1. Look at this

Steven bought an expensive new car on Friday

Steven--->Noun
bought --------> verb
expensive -----------> adjective
new----> adjective
car-------> noun
friday------->noun

He drove it carefully to Manchester

He, it ----> pronouns
carefully -----> adverbs
to, on -------> preposition
Manchester -----> noun

2. Nouns describe things or people or animals

Butter car woman dog problem


Some nouns (proper nouns) are the names of people, places and things. We begin proper nouns with capital letters ( A, B...):


Jane, Paris, Oxford Street, June, a Rolls- Royce, the Tower London.


3. Verbs describe actions or situations:


Work, play, live, meet, stay, see



They work hard (work= verb)


I saw Peter (Saw= verb)



4. We use auxiliary verbs (be, have, do, will, can, may, must, etc.)
before another verb:

They are working hard. (are= auxiliary)

I have seen Peter. (have = auxiliary)

I must go now. (must= auxiliary)



5. We put adjectives (e.g wonderful) before nouns:

We had a wonderful day


We can also use adjectives after the verbs be, look, seem, feel:

He's hungry She looks tired.


Sometimes we put very before adjectives:

It's very hot today.

he bought a very expensive car


6. We normally use adverbs to describe verbs:

She walked quickly. He sings well


7. We use pronouns (I, you, he, she,etc.) to replace nouns:


David has a new job.
He is enojoying it


8. We use prepositions (in, on, at, etc.) when we are talking about places and times:


Place: She's at home
It's in the box


Time: I'll see you on monday
They went on holiday in June