Conclusion to Word Groups

Another distinctive feature of the passage from Tomorrow, When the War Began is that the sentences are short and simple—as you might expect for someone narrating their experience in the middle of a war.

Take a look at the next sentence from the same excerpt. 

What word groups does this snippet use?

This sentence is what you could call Subject-Verb, meaning Someone-Does something. It's one of the simplest sentence structures in English.

This particular snippet has an extra flourish, which is an adverb group to add some colour to the verb group. 

(If you're particularly sharp-eyed, you might notice that 'all' is another adverb embedded in the verb group.)

Here are a couple of examples using this snippet as a model: