2. Verb Patterns

Clause တည္ေဆာက္ပံုေတြဟာ verb အေပၚမွာ မွီတည္ေနပါတယ္။ ဥပမာအားျဖင့္

Intransitive verb = N+V: John/ smiled.

Transitive verb + N+V+N: We/ had been playing/ football.

Link verb = N+V+Adj: She/ looked/ happy.

Phrasal verb = N+V+P+N: She/ gave/ back/ the money.

Or N+V+N+P: She/ gave/ the money/ back.

(1) Intransitive Verbs

Intransitive Verb Pattern ကေတာ့ N+V (Noun+Verb) သာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Clause ဟာ အျခား ဘာမွထပ္ထည့္စရာမလုိဘဲ ျပည့္စံုပါတယ္။

Noun Phrase (Subject)	Verb Phrase
John	smiled.
Nothing	happened.
The baby	was sleeping.

(2) Transitive Verbs

Transitive Verb Pattern ကေတာ့ N+V+N (Noun+Verb+Noun) ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Noun phrase တစ္ခုကို object အေနနဲ႔ ထည့္ေပးရပါတယ္။

Noun Phrase (Subject)	Verb Phrase	Noun Phrase (Object)
John	wanted	a new bicycle.
We	had been playing	football.
Some of the children	are learning	English.

(3) Link Verbs

Link Verb ေတြမွာ pattern ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိတယ္။ Adjective Phrase လုိက္တဲ့ pattern ရယ္ Noun Phrase လုိက္တဲ့ pattern ရယ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Pattern အေနနဲ႔ N+V+Adj (Noun+Verb+Adjective Phrase) နဲ႔ N+V+N (Noun+Verb+Noun Phrase) ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Adjective Phrase လုိက္တဲ့ pattern မွာ Adjective Phrase ကို Complement လို႔ေခၚတယ္။

Noun Phrase (Subject)	Verb Phrase	Adjective Phrase (complement)
I	am feeling	hungry.
Everyone	looked	very happy.
This soup	tastes	awful.
The milk	has gone	sour.

N+V+Adj (Complement)

Noun Phrase လုိက္တဲ့ pattern မွာ Noun Phrase ကုိ complement လို႔ေခၚတယ္။

Noun Phrase (Subject)	Verb Phrase	Noun Phrase (complement)
Our neighbour	was	a strange man.
He	became	a geologist.
She	seems	a nice girl.

N+V+N (Complement)