In our previous lesson, We talked to you about the basic sentence structure in Korean grammar. But in that topic, we only focused on short sentences. So today we are going to focused on some long sentence structures in Korean grammar.

Okay. Let's start today's topic.

There are two major sentence structures that we can use while writing or speaking long sentences in Korean.

1. Sentences with an indirect object

2. Sentences with modifiers

Anyway, you are free to write some sentences without a subject and change the order of the objects in your long sentences. Let's see more about each topic

1. Sentences with an indirect object

Korean grammar uses an indirect object before a direct object often to make longer sentence structures. The standard sentence structure of this type as below

Subject + Indirect Object + Direct Object + Verb

나는 톰에게 꽃을 줬어요

I gave tom the flowers

OMG! Then how I identify an indirect and direct object from a sentence. Don’t worry, Korean grammar uses indirect object markers to make an indirect object. As I told you earlier, the order of these objects can be change. It means you can write a direct object first and then the indirect object in longer sentence structures.

It does not affect the sentence because the markers show the components of a sentence. Thanks to markers…

Subject + Direct Object + Indirect Object + Verb

Next, we are going to discuss our second structure

2. Sentence with modifier

The main modifier that we are going to talk about in this lesson is the prepositional modifier. But remember, the postposition also available in Korean grammar.

Let’s see few examples with prepositional modifier

Subject + Preposition + Direct Object + Verb

가방이 책상 위에 있어요.

The bag is on the desk

환자가 병원 안에 있어요.

The patient is in the hospital.

A grammatical modifier is normally placed on the position for the direct object but also it can be placed anywhere in a sentence.

Subject + Direct Object + Preposition + Verb

Preposition + Subject + Direct Object + Verb

Subject + Preposition + Direct Object + Verb

Subject + Direct Object + Preposition + Verb

That's all for today's topic. Now you know the main sentence structures to write any long sentences in the Korean language

Yeah! You have reached the third stage of your Korean language journey. See you in our next lesson.

Have a nice day. Goodbye….