Transcript Sentence Diagramming

Sentence Diagramming
Understanding simple sentence structure
(noun-verb)
Sentences convey a complete thought by
answering two questions: Who (or what) did
it? and What did they (he, she, or it) do?
In English, we put nouns and verbs together
to make sentences.
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The following sentence has a noun/verb pattern.
The cat sat. (noun/action verb)
N/V
cat
noun/verb
sat
What is the noun?
What is the verb?
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Nouns have several functions (jobs). Nouns serve as the subjects
of sentences.
• The subject is one of two main parts of English sentences.
• The subject names the person, place, or thing that the sentence
is about.
The predicate is the second of the two main parts of English
sentences.
•The predicate contains the main verb of the sentence.
•The predicate usually comes after the subject.
A simple sentence has one subject and one
predicate.
•The subject answers: “Who (or what) did it?
•The predicate answers: What did they (he, she, or
it) do?
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EXAMPLE: SIMPLE SENTENCE
The man ran.
Who did it? The man.
What did he do? ran
The following diagram shows how to build this sentence with a
subject and predicate.
man
ran
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In the following slides you will
see a picture of an animated
object. You are to make up an
sentence with a noun and verb,
then diagram it.
Have Fun!!
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In your journal write down the following
sentences, then diagram them.
1. The dogs ran.
2. The fish swim.
3. A duck quacks.
4. A salamander’s slither.
5. The hyena yelps.
6. Giraffes can run.
7. A dinosaur rumbles.
8. The badger burrows.
9. A cat climbs.
10. The snakes slide.
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CLOSURE
By sentence diagramming
1. we will review the components of a sentence
2. we will identify the two components of a basic sentence and
build sentences
3. we will review that nouns name people, places and things and
that verbs describe actions
4. we will learn that nouns can be subjects of sentences
5. and we will learn that that predicate of a sentence contains
the verb.
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