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I understand that the sentence "She is Intelligent" would be pattern SVC, but what is the pattern when the sentence is "I think that she is intelligent". Because both "think" and "is" are verbs, I am confused. Is there a sentence pattern with two verbs that are not next to each other? Would it just be ASVC?

Andy Carter
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    Welcome to EL&U. This question is probably too basic for this site. It might be better addressed at ELL, if only there were some research shown. I suggest that you start here. – Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ Jan 18 '18 at 21:24
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    @cascabel I'm sorry if I came across as irritable. I think this is reasonable question. I don't think OP's question is a language learner's one. I think it's a genuine syntax one, which might be interesting for people who don't have an 'in' for syntactic stuff. Where else can they go? Anyway, I salute your 20 years of helping students. I'm getting on to three quarters of that. I hope I get there too. Best wishes. – Araucaria - Him Jan 19 '18 at 00:10
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