Diagram these sentences; they include everything you’ve learned so far! (This means you need to look out for: adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, verb phrases and prepositional phrases)
- The rusty shovel with the blue handle sat in my garage.
- These three puppies in the basket on the wood floor have been whimpering since this morning.
- Every candle in the little house on Main Street burned brightly throughout the night.
- In April, the cool rain falls on the soil.
- In May, the plants in Cathy’s garden grow very quickly.
- May I sit in the red chair? (Tip: turn this into a statement to find the subject)
- Ginny happily cooked in the kitchen of her new house.
- The skirt with black stripes fell into the laundry basket.
- Did the students in Mrs. O’Brien’s class study for the difficult test? (Tip: turn this into a statement to find the subject)
- The party guests in the living room talked quite loudly. (Tip: Treat living room as one word. It is a compound noun.)
Here is a list of helping verbs:
am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been
have, has, had
shall, will
do, does, did
may, must, might
can, could, would, should