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How to Diagram a Sentence

By Grace Fleming, About.com

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Subject and Verb

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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