Diagramming Review

1
Diagramming Review
2
Simple subjects and predicates

• People are working.
• Caravans rumbled across the prairie.

3
Four kinds of sentences

• People write letters. _________________
• Do many people write letters? ____________

4

• Write a letter. ____________________
• What interesting letters you write! _________

5
Direct and indirect objects

• People invent machines.
• Rosa gave the dog a bone.

6
Predicate nouns and adjectives

• Telephones are useful instruments.
• Telephones are useful.

7
Modifiers (single words or prep phrases)

• Elenas strange dream faded quickly.
• A woman in a pink hat was sitting beside me.

8
Compound parts

• Gas and oil heat homes.
• Babies eat and sleep.

9

• The bakery serves sandwiches and drinks.
• Dogs are loyal and friendly.

10
Compound sentences

• James practices football after school, and on
  Saturdays he helps his father at his job.

11
Complex sentences

• Students who complete their assignments will
  surely succeed.
• If you complete your assignments, you will surely
  succeed.

12

• The movie that we watched was very funny.

13
Noun clauses

• What she told us was the simple truth.
• Terry knows that good grades are important.

14

• This is an example of what I mean.
• Tell whomever you see the news.

15
Verbals Participles

• The birds, singing merrily, splashed in the
  birdbath.

16
Verbals Gerunds

• Building new nests is another job for the
  returning birds.

17
Verbals Infinitive

• The purpose of a microscope is to magnify objects.