Jack and Sheree's

Diagramming

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Dogs run.

Dogs Run

subject verb

Big horses eat quickly.

Horses Eat

Eat

quicklyadverb

I ran in the forest.

I ran

in the forest

Prepositional phrase

Bill and Bob ran.

And

Bill

Bob

ran

And

Bill

Bob

ran

Bill and Bob ran in the forest.

in the forest

And

Deer

Elk

Three

Two A

nd

Ran

Jumped

Three deer and two elk ran and jumped.

The boy and the girl ran at the track.

And

boy

girl

ranat

the track

the

the

The boy with the smile and the girl with the curls talked.

boy

girlthe

the

an

d

with

with

the curls

the smile talked

I threw the ball.

I threw ball the

Bill cut some wood.

bill cut wood som

e

The sentence base is placed on a horizontal line.

Jim and Jerry ate a sub.

Jim

Jerryan

d ate suba

This is a direct object

Fish ate a minnow.

fish ate minnowa

The vertical line that goes through the horizontal line separates the subject from the verb.

The diagonal line is for adjectives and adverbs. The are called “modifier”.

My mom and my dad drove the big car.

mom

dadan

d

my

my

drove carthe

big

girls

boysan

d

thethe

ran

quickly

The boy and the girl ran.

conjunction

girls

boyan

d

thethe

threw

The girls and the boy threw the ball.

the

ball

The creepy bugs and the crawling insects flew silently in the night.

Bugs

insectsan

d

creepyCraw

ling

flewin

silently

the night

Mr. Heiderbrink caught the ball.

Mr. Heiderbrink caught ballthe

I read a big book with a great ending.

I read booka

big

witha great ending

Prepositional phrase

girls shoot basketballthe

tall

Tall girls shoot the basketball.

Direct object

Tall girls run quickly.

girls Run quickly tall

I saw an elk and a buck in the forest

I

an

delk

buck

an

a

saw Forest In

The

She Is beautiful

She is beautiful.

Boys are

funny

The boys are funny and happy.

the

an

d

happy

My friends from college seem nervous

friends college nervousm

y fromseem

This orange taste different

orange taste differentthis

I will be happy in the summer with my friends

IW

ill be

happy

in

The summer with my friends

Diagramming is fun

Fun Diagramming is

Diagraming is

boring

an

d

dull

Diagraming is boring and dull

Mr. hoglund threw the ball

Mr. hoglund threw ballthe

Mr. Hoglund is really tall

Mr. Hoglund is tallreally

The boys and the girls in this class are funny.

Boys

girls an

d Are

The The

funny

in

the class

Mr. Hoglund has three classes of students.

Mr.Hoglund has classes

Three studentsof

He likes my class

He likes

my

class

I read my brother a book.

I read book

My brothera

He says nice things about me to his friends.

I threw ball

himthe

This is an indirect object

I play in the summer and, I ski in the winter.

I play

in

the

summer

and

I

ski winter

in

the

This is a compound sentence

I fish with my brother because he is fun.

I fish

with My brother

beca

use

he is fun

This is a complex sentence