How do you construct a sentence?

Answer 1

1. Draw a horizontal line with a short vertical line through the center. Write the simple subject on the left side of the line and the verb on the right side of the line.

2. If your sentence contains a direct object or a subject complement, continue the horizontal line beyond the verb. If you have a direct object, draw a short vertical line after the verb (this line touches the horizontal line from above), and place the direct object after it. If you have a linking verb with a subject complement, draw a backslash after the verb, and write the complement after it.

3. Write an article or an adjective that describes the subject on a slanted line extending down and to the right from the horizontal line beneath the subject. Repeat for any additional adjectives, arranging them from left to right according to their position in the sentence. If you have an adjective describing the direct object or the predicate noun, draw a slanted line beneath it and put the adjective on the line.

4. If the sentence has an adverb that describe the verb, draw a slanted line under the verb and put the adverb on this line. Repeat for any additional adverbs. If the sentence contains an adverb that modifies an adjective, draw a slanted line from the adjective and write the adverb on that line.

5. For a prepositional phrase, determine which word the phrase modifies (prepositional phrases are either adverbial or adjectival) and draw a slanted line under that word. On this line, write the preposition. Write the object of the preposition on a horizontal line drawn to the right from a point on the slanted line near the bottom.

6. If any part of your sentence is compound, you will connect the parts with a dotted line along which is written the conjunction that connects them. For instance, if you have a compound subject, draw two subject lines and write each subject on a line. Connect them with a dotted line.

7. For complex sentences, connect the independent clause (above) with the subordinate clause (below) by means of a dotted line on which you place the subordinating conjunction. The broken line connects the verb of the independent clause with the verb of the subordinate clause. Diagram both clauses as you normally would.

Answer 2

A sentence starts with a verb. The verb is the scaffold on which the rest of the sentence is constructed.

throws

If a verb is thought of as the action, then who is the actor? This is the subject.

Johnny throws

Who is acted upon? This is the object. An object can be direct (the ball) or indirect (Jane).

Johnny throws the ball to Jane.

Modifications of the verb are adverbs (quickly) and adverbial phrases (with great force).

Johnny throws the ball to Jane quickly and with great force.

Modifications of the subject or object are adjectives (big) and adjectival phrases (the girl with blonde hair).

Big Johnny throws the ball to Jane, the girl with blonde hair, quickly and with great force.

You can link two sentences into a single sentence with a conjunction (and).

Big Johnny throws the ball to Jane, the girl with blonde hair, quickly and with great force, and thereby scares her.

who ever wrote this is a retard

Answer 3

You will find a helpful place to practice here: https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn8207/diagramming-sentences

Answer 4

In pedagogy, a sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a natural-language sentence. A sentence diagram is a form of a parse tree.

Answer 5

Use example sentence The sleek horse jumped smoothly and effortlessly

Answer 6

Yes there are, but all of them are for windows computers. There are also apps to help diagramming, but none that will diagram a sentence for you.