Identify the sentence pattern being used in this sentence: he followed the map to the treasure. s-tv-io-do s-tv-do-oc s-tv-do s-itv s-lv-sc

On your similar question about Darcy singing the song slowly, I have in depth gone through what each of those structure abbreviations mean and some of the special cases. I would copy and paste them for this one, too, but it would cause this site to have an absolute meltdown and think I am plagiarizing. Either way, I am going to help you through this one, though for anything you may be confused on, that question is where to check.

He followed the map to the treasure. 

Your subject is going to be the unnamed "he," since he is what the sentence is centered around. 

Followed is a verb, and to figure out if this is transitive or intransitive, you're going to want to see if there is a direct object. He follows the map. Map would currently be your direct object, and therefore, making "followed" a transitive verb.

So far we have: S-TV. This eliminates the last two answer choices.

Because we also still have more of the sentence to figure out, we can also ignore the third answer choice. Our sentence does not end at just our direct object. 

If you want to try looking at the sentence as if treasure is your direct object and map is your indirect object (since IO normally always comes before DO) it would not quite make sense. It would mean that he followed the treasure. Indirect objects are what the direct objects are being done for. He is following the treasure for the map? This doesn't necessarily make sense. If treasure and map were switched around in the sentence in a certain way, perhaps then this could make sense. This means we can also eliminate the first answer choice. 

Your answer is going to be: S-TV-DO-OC.

Your object complement is going to be "(to the) treasure." This is because you are renaming the map. You have now specified that the map is a treasure map or one that will lead him to treasure.

Where is the excerpt?