Adjectives
Find that Adjective:
The sleepy turtle slowly sauntered into the stylish café.
sleepy, stylish
What is the first step in diagramming a sentence?
Draw a horizontal line.
What kind of verbs are these?
Run, Jump, Play, Sing, Sleep, Walk, Swim, Skydive, live, dig, build, change, watch, act, clean, wash, move
Action Verbs
How do adverbs often end?
With an "ly"
Make a sentence that includes Mrs. Gibbs, one adjective, and one adverb.
Mrs. Gibbs selfishly refused to take down her precious birdfeeders.
Mrs. Gibbs lovingly refused to take down her necessary birdfeeders.
Add an adjective that starts with a "t."
The ______________ hurricane violently destroyed our entire neighborhood.
Terrible
Tumultuous
Twisty
Timely
What is the second step in diagramming?
Find the subject and verb
A linking verb:
links two words together, an adjective or noun and the subject.
Adverbs modify
Verbs, Adjectives, and other Adverbs
What is the definition of blight?
A thing that spoils or damages something.
What questions do I answer?
Name at least 3 questions.
What kind?
How many?
Which one?
How much?
Whose?
What kind of line goes after a linking verb in a diagram?
A slanted line
Name the verb in this sentence:
The treacherous treehouse in my yard cracked and groaned with the weight of my big brother.
treehouse
What questions do Adverbs answer?
When?
Where?
How?
To what extent?
True or False?
Langston Hughes was famous for playing the guitar.
False
An adjective modifies an adverb:
True or False
False
A preposition always goes on the main line of the diagram.
True or False
False!
The preposition NEVER belongs on the main line of the diagram!
Give me an example of a sentence with a linking verb and predicate noun.
(Hint: the predicate noun renames the subject)
Mrs. Hudeck is a writer.
Philip is a Doctor.
Skating is a sport.
Add an Adverb:
My terrible sister ___________ destroyed my favorite game.
quickly
violently
rudely
Ham, Lima Beans, and 10 cent cake.
Diagram this sentence:
The savory spaghetti tastes delicious.
Subject noun: spaghetti
Verb: (linking) tastes
Predicate adjective: delicious -after a slanted line
The and Savory go under spaghetti.
Diagram this sentence:
John and Bill discovered dinosaur bones and excavated funny fossils in the woods behind the house.
Compound Subject: John and Bill
Compound Verb: discovered and excavated
Direct Objects: bones and fossils
Adjectives: dinosaur, funny
Prepositional phrases: in the woods, behind the house
Diagram this sentence:
The very foolish boy in the tree dropped red apples on my head yesterday.
Subject noun: boy
Verb: dropped
Adjectives: The, very, foolish, red
Adverb: yesterday
Prepositional phrase: in the tree, on my head
Diagram this sentence:
He ate the chocolate cake greedily.
Subject Noun: He
Verb: ate
Direct Object: cake
Adjectives: the, chocolate
Adverb: greedily (under ate)
Who wrote the poem, "Mother to Son."
Langston Hughes