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Five-Form-Grammar has been a dominant School Grammar for teaching sentence patterns for the past years. However, I argue that there must be more objective linguistic theories for the application to English grammar teaching. In this respect, Transformational Grammar, classifying verbs according to the types of complementation they take, provides better explanations for grammar teaching. Complements as subcategorized forms of verbs are obligatory elements in VP, which are further discussed using the verb types and subcategorization frames by Wekker & Haegeman (1991). Complement Types focused here are adverbial complement, predicative+adverbial complement, and indirect and direct object. Indication of adverbial complement in transformational grammar provides the most exact syntactic information verbs can have. The result of this analysis supports legitimacy in teaching sentence patterns associated with verb complementation.