The document discusses the different elements of a sentence including the subject, predicate, direct object, and indirect object. It then explains and provides examples of different basic sentence patterns: subject-intransitive verb (S-IV), subject-transitive verb-direct object (S-TV-DO), subject-linking verb-subject complement (S-LV-PN or S-LV-PA), subject-transitive verb-direct object-object complement (S-TV-DO-OC), and subject-transitive verb-indirect object-direct object (S-TV-IO-DO).