Charts
This chart is the foundation for all the rest of the charts and was the first one we learned.
What is Chart A?
Name the pattern for this sentence: "Marco ate a horse."
What is S-Vt-DO?
What is a verb?
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: "My mom is in the dishwasher, and she says she needs my help with something."
What are "in the dishwasher" and "with something"?
Name the underlined part of speech: "Goodnight, moon."
What is a noun?
The acronym HILT helped us to remember the four types listed on the top of this chart.
What is Chart C?
Name the pattern for this sentence: "My dad gave my baby sister a horse."
What is S-Vt-IO-DO?
This replaces a noun in order to avoid repetition.
What is a pronoun?
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: "Buzz Lightyear jumped out of the car, which was on its way to Pizza Planet, and his reasoning was beyond Woody's comprehension."
What are "out of the car", "on its way", and "beyond Woody's comprehension"?
Name the underlined part of speech: "Goodnight light and the red balloon."
What is a conjunction?
This is the number of principal parts each English verb has.
What is five?
Name the pattern for this sentence: "I named my horse Sheila."
What is S-Vt-DO-OCN?
This part of speech describes, qualifies, or limits.
What is an adjective?
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: "Buttercup was mad about Westley, but he was taken by the Dread Pirate Roberts."
What are "about Westley" and "by the Dread Pirate Roberts"?
Name the underlined part of speech: "In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of the cow jumping over the moon."
What is a preposition?
SPIDO PONA is the acronym used to remember the roles or jobs that can be had by this part of speech.
What is a noun?
Name the pattern for this sentence: "Did my horse call me pretty?"
What is S-Vt-DO-OCA?
This consists of at least two independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: "In my opinion, butter is unnecessary on butter-flavored popcorn, because there is already a copious amount of butter on it in the first place."
What are "in my opinion", "on butter-flavored popcorn", "of butter", "on it", and "in the first place"?
Name the underlined part of speech: "A train! A train! A train! A train! Could you, would you on a train?"
This is the number of unique sentence classifications in the English language. (Hint: # structures x # purposes x # patterns).
What is 112?
Name the patterns for this sentence: "I bought my horse a telescope, but Donny demolished it."
This is a verb usually ending in -ed, -en, -t, or -ing used as an adjective.
What is a participle?
Identify the prepositional phrases in this sentence: "Tell me about it in the morning, after I've slept for forever."
What are "about it", "in the morning", "after I've slept", and "for forever"?
Name the underlined part of speech: "Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight. Mighty nice!"
What is a pronoun? (Specifically, an indefinite pronoun.)