DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

The simplest form of a diagram looks like this:

Subject Verb

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

We begin, naturally, with the representation of a very simple sentence:

Glaciers melt.

We will place the subject-verb relationship on a straight horizontal line . . .

Glaciers melt

and separate the subject from its verb with a short vertical line extending through the horizontal line.

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

Examples:

1) She yells.

She yells

2) Children sleep?Children sleep

3) Quiet!

(you) Quiet

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

Modifiers (including articles) go under the words they modify on slanted lines.

The glacier is melting slowly.

glacier is meltingThe slowly

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

Modifiers answer the following questions:

whichwhen

howwhere

to what extent

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

A modifier that falls under a noun is an adjective, and a modifier that falls under a verb is an adverb.

noun verb

adjectives adverbs

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

Examples:

1) The teacher demonstrated.

teacher demonstrated

2) The teacher demonstrated patiently.

teacher demonstrated

The

Thepatientl

y