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Diagramming sentences provides a way of picturing the structure of a sentence. s v 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.

Modifiers (including articles) go under the words they modify on slanted lines. s hv av The glacier is melting slowly. glacier is melting The slowly

s hv av do The glacier is slowly destroying the forest. glacier is destroying forest The the slowly A direct object follows the verb on the horizontal line; it is separated from the verb by a vertical line that does not go through the horizontal line.

Predicate nouns and predicate adjectives follow the verb and are separated from the verb by a slanted line. s lv pa The glacier is not really dangerous. glacier is dangerous The not really Josiah Brown is a brilliant professor. Josiah Brown is professor a brilliant

With compound subjects and predicates, the sentence diagram begins to branch out. The professor and her colleagues are studying glaciers and avalanches. professor glaciers The and are studying and colleagues avalanches her

Compound verbs are put on branches in a similar fashion. The professor and her colleagues are studying and classifying glaciers. professor are studying The and glaciers and colleagues classifying her

Indirect objects are arranged under the main sentence line. Professor Higgins gave her students two projects. Professor Higgins gave projects students two her

Prepositional phrases are arranged on branches below the words they modify. Professor Higgins studied glaciers in Antarctica during the 1950s. Professor Higgins studied glaciers in Antarctica during 1950s the

Diagramming Sentences The porters hiked toward the summit. Someone in the class has seen the movie. Tamara and Dawn floated the raft down the river. The ocean is calm beneath the waves. We ordered a dish of salsa and a basket of tortilla chips. Here is the test. Buy me a present!

Diagramming Sentences porters hiked The porters hiked toward the summit. The toward summit the

Diagramming Sentences Someone in the class has seen the movie. Someone has seen movie in the class the

Diagramming Sentences Tamara and Dawn floated the raft down the river. Tamara floated raft and the Dawn down river the

Diagramming Sentences ocean is The ocean is calm beneath the waves calm The beneath waves the

Diagramming Sentences We ordered a dish of salsa and a basket of tortilla chips. dish a of salsa We ordered and basket a of chips tortilla

Diagramming Sentences Here is the test. test is the here

Diagramming Sentences (you) Buy me a present! (you) buy present a me

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