Sentence Types
This type of sentence asks a question.
What is interrogative?
The simple subject of the sentence:
Batman defeated the Joker after a long battle.
What is "Batman"?
This type of object is acted upon directly by the subject.
What is a direct object?
Although in the predicate, predicate nouns and predicate adjectives describe this part of the sentence.
What is the subject?
This combination of lines is at the center of the diagram and separates the subject from the predicate.
What is a cross?
What is imperative?
The simple subject of the sentence:
Lately, I have done my homework quickly.
What is "I"?
The direct object of the sentence:
Jem and Scout destroyed my flowers!
What is "flowers"?
The type of subject complement in the following sentence:
George is a big, hungry dude.
What is a predicate noun?
The subject goes on this side of the diagram.
What is the left side?
This type of sentence is either true or false.
What is declarative?
The simple subject of the sentence:
Whom are you talking to?
What is "you"?
The direct object of the sentence:
Tell me no lies.
What is "lies"?
The predicate adjective in the sentence:
Jeremy was terribly sad, today.
What is "sad"?
This type of line indicates a direct object.
What is a vertical line after the verb which does not pass through the horizontal line?
A declarative sentence ends in either of these two punctuation marks.
What are a period and an exclamation point?
The simple subject of the sentence:
Break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat bar!
What is "(you)"?
The indirect object of the sentence:
Billy gave everyone a case of chicken pox.
What is "everyone"?
Clark Kent is both a reporter and Superman.
What are "reporter" and "Superman"?
Modifiers such as adjectives and adverbs are diagrammed in this way.
What is underneath the words which they modify on slanted lines?
An exclamatory sentence starts with this type of pronoun.
What is an adverbial pronoun?
The simple subject of the sentence:
Down the chimney came Santa Claus.
What is "Santa Claus"?
An indirect object is not directly acted upon, but the subject's action toward it would be implied by either of these two prepositions.
What are "to" and "for"?
The subject complements of the sentence:
Tony seems untrustworthy but is actually an honest guy.
What are "untrustworthy" and "guy"?
An indirect object is diagrammed in this way.
What is on a horizontal line connected to a slanted line attached to the verb?