Sentence diagramming

Sentence Diagramming

Key skills

5 key skills

1. Identify central parts of the sentence

2. Establish relationships between those parts

3. Show those relationships with correct lines in the

diagram

4. Assign modifiers to each sentence part

5. Draw in modifiers for each part on the diagram

Identify parts

• There are four central parts of a sentence

– Subject– Predicate– Direct object– Indirect object

• Practice finding each part in the following sentences

Identify parts

We eat.You draw?Sit down.Grab the broom.She sings the National Anthem.Did you bring me the books?The Gorillaz gave the audience a great show.

Identify parts

We eat.You draw?(you) Sit down.(you) Grab the broom.She sings the National Anthem.Did you bring me the books?The Gorillaz gave the audience a great show.

SubjectPredicate

Direct objectIndirect object

Identify parts

• The system still works for sentences with more than one of the same part, like these:

SubjectPredicate


- I have been drawing comics and dancing.- Claire and Pierre are bringing us food.- My sister cooked them macaroni and cheese and beans, and cleaned up the kitchen.- I have finished Scenes 1, 2 and 3 of Act 2!

Identify parts

• My Dominican father and I always cooked while we listened to Spanish music.

• Every Saturday night, I played sous-chef and made rice.

• Expose yourself to different flavors.• Sosa left us an exclusive beet carpaccio recipe.• That blog offers vegetarians creative options

and delicious snacks.

SubjectPredicate


Identify parts



• (you) Expose yourself to different flavors.• Sosa left us an exclusive beet carpaccio recipe.• That blog offers new vegetarians creative

options and delicious snacks.

SubjectPredicate


Establish relationships

• Each central part of the sentence has its own place on the diagram, based on its job.

• Who is doing? What is the action? What is the action applied to? Does the direct object go to someone or something?

subject predicate direct object

indirect object

Establish relationships

• Some sentences have more than one part with the same job (like two subjects or three direct objects).

• Try circling subject and predicate, underlining the direct object and boxing any indirect objects.

- My sister cooked them macaroni and cheese and beans, and cleaned up the kitchen.- I have finished Scenes 1, 2 and 3 of Act 2!

SubjectPredicate


Show relationships

• The diagram helps to show the job of each part in a sentence. Each part of the diagram has its own place for a reason – it shows the job of the word (or words) in the sentence.

• Incorrect diagrams ‘lie’ about the job of the word in the sentence – or make the word’s job very unclear. Work to draw the lines correctly.

subject predicate direct object

indirect object

Show relationships

• Remember these sentences? Notice that both of them have more than one direct object.

• The job of the direct object will not change. However, their relationship to the predicate is unique. Their diagrams will look different because the relationships are different.

- My sister cooked them macaroni and cheese and beans, and cleaned up the kitchen.- I have finished Scenes 1, 2 and 3 of Act 2!

SubjectPredicate


cooked

cleaned

Show relationships

sister

macaroni and cheese

beansthem

I have finishedScene 1

Scene 2Scene 3

SubjectPredicate


These two direct objects are only related to the action ‘cooked,’ but not cleaned. All three scenes are related to the action ‘have finished.’ The diagrams help to show the right relationships.

Show relationships


cooked

listened to

father

I

we music

whileNotice how both father and I are related to cooked? The diagram comes together to show the connection.

SubjectPredicate


Show relationships

Try these:




SubjectPredicate


I played sous-chef and made rice.

.

(you) Expose yourself to different flavors.

Sosa left us an exclusive beet carpaccio recipe.

That blog offers vegetarians creative options and delicious snacks.

SubjectPredicate


Assign modifiers

• Most sentences contain parts that are not central – not shown on the basic diagram – but describe or ‘add to’ (modify) the central parts. These are things like adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, phrases and more.

• So far, we have only learned how to add adjectives to the diagram. Adjectives always modify nouns, and are shown as diagonal lines below the noun it’s related to.

• Find the adjectives in these sentences

SubjectPredicate


ConjunctionAdjective or adjective or adjective

Identify parts





SubjectPredicate



Assign modifiers





SubjectPredicate



Assign modifiers

• Be clear about the relationships between adjectives and nouns (or adverbs and verbs, adjectives or adverbs)

• Again, add your lines below the baseline to the right place to show the right relationships.

• That blog offers new vegetarians creative options and delicious snacks.

Retake | diagram each sentence

• My nose was runny because I had a nasty cold.• Buy me some more DayQuil!• I napped and watched some daytime tv.• I slurped tomato soup and some chai tea, and

munched a cheese melt.• My friends visited and brought me a great

movie.

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