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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? • 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? • Subject: whom or what the sentence is about • 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) © http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com 1 Daily Diagrams Sample # 1 Day Two: Review: • Sentence: a group of words that expresses one complete thought • Subject: whom or what the sentence is about • 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) © http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com 2 Daily Diagrams Sample # 1 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. • 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 © http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com 3 Daily Diagrams Sample # 1 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. • Verb phrases are made from at least one helping verb and one main verb. (would have laughed) • Helping verb: verbs that help the main verb in a verb phrase (would have laughed) • 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 © http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com 4 Daily Diagrams Sample # 1 Day Five: Review: • Verb: what the subject is or does • Verb phrase: two or more words acting together to show what the subject is or is doing • Helping verb: verbs that help the main verb in a verb phrase • 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.) © http://www.english-grammar-revolution.com 5