In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

Je mange une pomme - I’m eating an apple. Je is the subject, the person who is doing the action. Une pomme is the object because it is on the receiving end of the action.

WE all know that when a sentence uses a transitive verb as the operative verb, it's absolutely necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: "The woman spurned her suitor last ...