Sentence Diagramming

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Sentence Diagramming

• Part 5
• Adjectives

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What is an Adjective?

• Adjectives come in two types
• Common are always lowercase and generic.
• Proper are always capitalized and specific.

red
huge
boring
hot
amazing
twenty
awesome
British
Canadian
American
Japanese
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Diagramming Adjectives

• Adjectives are diagrammed below the baseline,
  directly under the noun or pronoun that they are
  describing.

• Red busses are famous in London.

s
pa
lv
busses
famous
are
Red
adjective
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More Adjective Reminders

• Adjectives only modify nouns or pronouns. That
  includes
• Subjects
• Predicate Nominatives (predicate nouns)
• A, An, The are adjectives. (They are often
  called articles).

• The supersonic Concorde was a European airplane.

airplane
was
Concorde
a
The
supersonic
European
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More Adjective Practice

• Old, red, telephone boxes are awesome!

boxes
are
awesome
Old
red
telephone

• British soccer fans crowded the new stadium in
  London.

crowded
stadium
fans
the
new
soccer
British