How to Diagram a Sentence
By Grace Fleming, About.com
The most basic sentence contains a subject and a verb. We begin to diagram a sentence by drawing a base line beneath the subject and the verb. We separate the two by a vertical line that extends through the base line.
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- Subject and Verb
- Direct Object and Predicate Adjective
- Clause as Direct Object
- Two Direct Objects
- Adjectives and Verbs that Modify
- More Modifiers
- Clause as Predicate Nominative
- Indirect Object and Understood You
- Complex Sentence
- Appositives
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