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Diagramming Sentences Subject Verb
The document introduces a simple diagram for representing sentences by placing the subject on the left of a horizontal line, the verb on the right, and connecting them with a vertical line. Modifiers such as adjectives and adverbs are shown below the words they modify on slanted lines. This basic subject-verb diagram can then be expanded to include modifiers and show the relationships between different parts of speech.
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Introduces simple sentence structure using subject-verb format. Examples include 'Glaciers melt' and variations like 'She yells' with minimal components.
Explains the placement of modifiers beneath words they describe, including adjectives and adverbs. Modifiers answer key questions like 'which' and 'when'.
Distinguishes between adjectives and adverbs based on their relationship to nouns and verbs. Provides examples of sentences incorporating these modifiers.
Diagramming Sentences Subject Verb
- 1. The simplest formof a diagram looks like this: Subject Verb
- 2. 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.
- 3. Examples: 1) Sheyells. She yells 2) Children sleep? Children sleep 3) Quiet! (you) Quiet
- 4. Modifiers (including articles)go under the words they modify on slanted lines. The glacier is melting slowly. glacier is melting The slowly
- 5. Modifiers answer thefollowing questions: which when how where to what extent
- 6. A modifier thatfalls under a noun is an adjective, and a modifier that falls under a verb is an adverb. noun verb adjectives adverbs
- 7. Examples: 1) Theteacher demonstrated. teacher demonstrated 2) The teacher demonstrated patiently. teacher demonstrated The The patiently