Fun with Randomly-Generated Sentences
An Interesting Way to Study English Sentence Patterns

Subject + Verb: I swim. Joe swims. They swam.
Subject + Verb + Object: I drive a car. Joe plays the guitar. They ate dinner.
Subject + Verb + Complement: I am busy. Joe became a doctor. They look sick.
Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object: I gave her a gift. She teaches us English.
Subject + Verb + Object + Complement: I left the door open. We elected him president. They named her Jane.

Present Continuous: I am swimming. Joe is sleeping. They are jogging.
Present Simple: I play tennis. He swims every day. I usually swim for two hours.
Present Perfect: I have eaten. He has just come home. They've already gone.
Past Simple: I rested. He played tennis yesterday. They drove to Boston.
Past Continuous: I was sleeping. She was cooking a while ago. They were talking.
Past Perfect: I had already seen it. He had played tennis.


Possession: I have a camera. He owns a car. This house belongs to them.
Location: I am here. He swims in the river. They live in the mountains.
It's fun to swim. (Using adjectives similar to fun.): It isn't healthy to smoke. Smoking is dangerous.
They agreed to swim. (Using verbs similar to agree.): He didn't desire to work. They like to play.
They asked him to swim. (Using verbs similar to ask.): He didn't advise me to work. They often encourage me to work harder.
They enjoy swimming. (Using verbs similar to enjoy.): He didn't enjoy working. He likes playing tennis.

English Sentence Machine (Written in ActionScript / Flash): Mad-lib / Random Sentence Generator
Bilingual English-Japanese Random Sentence Generator (Written in Perl): This makes English sentences with Japanese translations.

Fun with Randomly-Generated SentencesAn Interesting Way to Study English Sentence Patterns