Enhance your students' understanding of grammar by teaching them how to diagram sentences! Sentence diagramming is a way of visually understanding the structure of a sentence. This PowerPoint teaches students how to diagram all of the main parts of speech. For each part of speech, an example slide and then a practice slide is included. Slides include instructions on how to diagram:
- simple subjects and predicates
- compound subjects and predicates
- words that modify (adjectives, adverbs, articles, possessive pronouns, etc.)
- direct and indirect objects
- subject complements (predicate nouns and predicate adjectives)
- compound objects
I love this PowerPoint. The only things I will probably add are definitions of each part of speech as they are added on, and I would have liked if the fill in answers appeared one at a time instead of all at once. Thanks a bunch!
Awesome! Easier to explain than my cartoon drawings!
September 29, 2011
jdrobb
I'm always looking for things to improve students writing. This is the best I've seen for diagramming.
THANKS!!
September 25, 2011
Dakota5
Wow! Thank you! This is wonderful and 'exactly' what I needed!!
September 25, 2011
John Montenigro
A powerful yet simple refresher for me (40+ years after grammar school). I'd never heard of "Subject Complements", yet I grasped it easily through the diagrams. Would love to see this author do a lesson on basic parts of speech.
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ginny123
Hi, looks great! I was just wondering where, i.e. from what sources, you got this inspiration to diagram in the fashion you presented. Thanks!
Well, I had to diagram sentences in high school and then again in my college Grammar class. Setting out the sentence parts visually always helped me understand how the parts all fit together. There are set rules regarding diagramming sentences that have been around for ages, so I can't take any credit for that. I just used kid-friendly sentences to help make the rules of diagramming easy to digest. Glad you liked the lesson!