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Daily Diagrams Sample # 1
Day One:
Sentence diagrams are a way for you to sort your words. They give you specific
places to sort each type of word, and they show you how those words are related
to each other.
In order to have a sentence diagram, you need to have a sentence. Do you know
what a sentence is?
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Sentence: a group of words that expresses one complete thought
Do you know what two magical elements you need in order to make a sentence?
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Subject: whom or what the sentence is about
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Verb: what the subject is or does
Every sentence out there is just telling you what someone or something did or is.
Here is how you diagram those two basic parts of a sentence:
Diagram the following sentence, and be sure that you can identify each part.
Diagram: Fish swim.
Key
Fish swim.
fish
swim
sentence
subject (whom or what the sentence is
about)
verb (what the subject is or does)
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Day Two:
Review:
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Sentence: a group of words that expresses one complete thought
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Subject: whom or what the sentence is about
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Verb: what the subject is or does
Diagram: Teachers teach.
Key
Teachers teach.
teachers
teach
sentence
subject (whom or what the sentence is
about)
verb (what the subject is or does)
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Day Three:
Sometimes a verb is made up of more than one word. The words work together
to tell us what the subject is or is doing.
When more than one word is acting as the verb, the words are called a verb
phrase.
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Verb phrase: two or more words acting together to show what the
subject is or is doing
To diagram a verb phrase, put the verb phrase in the place where the verb goes.
Diagram: Students will learn.
Key
Students will learn.
sentence
students
subject
will learn
verb phrase
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Day Four:
Whenever you have a verb phrase, you always have one main verb and one or
more helping verbs.
The main verb is the one that tells us the most about the verb. It conveys the
meaning. There are many, many main verbs. (teach, jump, skip, climb, learn…)
Helping verbs help the main verb. There are only 24 helping verbs. You’ll learn
all 24 of these tomorrow. Here are some: might, would, have, may, must.
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Verb phrases are made from at least one helping verb and one
main verb. (would have laughed)
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Helping verb: verbs that help the main verb in a verb phrase (would
have laughed)
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Main verb: verbs that tell what a subject is or does (would have
laughed)
Diagram: Bella might have smiled.
Key
Bella might have smiled.
Bella
sentence
subject
might have smiled
verb phrase
might
helping verb
have
helping verb
smiled
main verb
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Day Five:
Review:
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Verb: what the subject is or does
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Verb phrase: two or more words acting together to show what the
subject is or is doing
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Helping verb: verbs that help the main verb in a verb phrase
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Main verb: verbs that tell what a subject is or does
You must memorize all 24 helping verbs, or your head might explode! Well, not
really, but memorizing them will make the difference between grammar being fun
and grammar being the bane of your existence. (Teachers, quiz your students on
these periodically. Tell them they will be tested on this. It’s SUPER important.)
The 24 Helping Verbs:
(Directions: Write them down in this order. Stick them in your noggin.)
be, am, is, are, was
were, been, being, have, has, had
could, should, would, may, might
must, shall, can, will, do, did
does, having
Listen to the helping verbs song. Sing it. You’ll be singing these in the shower in
no time. The song makes it easy to memorize them. Find the song here:
http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/list-of-verbs.html - helping_verbs
(Yeah, I know. There is no diagram today. Just focus on
memorizing the helping verbs. You’ll be happy that you did.)
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