Diagramming Sentences, Kalai Selvi Arivalagan [warren buffett book recommendations .txt] 📗

How to diagram a sentence

Begin to diagram a sentence by drawing a horizontal line which is the base line of the sentence that you are going to diagram. The horizontal line is separated by a vertical line in the centre.

Subject and Verb

Birds fly.

Birds – subject fly – verb

First draw a horizontal line below the words. Then draw a vertical line that passes through the horizontal line and separate the two words.

Subject, Verb, Direct Object

Birds – subject read – verb books - object

Subject, Verb, Compound Objects

Students – subject read – verb books, articles – two objects

Subject, verb, Direct Object, Indirect Object

I - subject gave – verb my mother - indirect object my keys – direct object

Subject, Verb, Object, Adverb

Students – subject read – verb books – object quietly – adverb

Subject, Verb, Object, Adjective

Teachers – subject are – verb leaders – object effective - adjective

Compound Sentence

Richard walked, but I drove.

Richard – subject walked – verb but – conjunction I – subject drove – verb

Complex sentence

I jumped when he popped the balloon.

I jumped – main clause; when he popped the balloon – subordinate clause

Subject, verb, preposition, object

Prepositions create a relationship with other words in a sentence. Prepositions can occur anywhere in a sentence. Prepositions are followed by an object (noun or pronoun) in a sentence.

A preposition is placed on a diagonal line beneath the word it modifies. The object of the preposition appears on a horizontal line attached to the line of the preposition.

The visitors arrived from El Paso on schedule.

Conjunctions

Conjunctions appear as dotted lines connecting similar elements.

John and Tim love football.

John, Tim – Subjects love – verb football - object

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