Modifier: Modifiers, like adjectives and adverbs, add more description to nouns, verbs, or other modifiers.Preposition: Prepositions such as in, at, to, or behind show relationships like direction, time, location, and space.Indirect object: The indirect object is the noun that receives the direct object.Direct object: The direct object is the noun that receives the action.Predicate verb: The predicate specifies the complete action of the sentence, and at its center is the predicate verb.Subject noun or noun form: The subject is the doer of the action in a sentence.Constituents can be a single word or a collection of words that form a single function. You might recognize some of these are parts of speech like articles and conjunctions, but others are concepts that describe the constituents of a sentence like predicates or subordinate clauses. Sentence diagramming deals heavily with the functions of words, and you need to identify each word or phrase’s role so you know where to put it on your sentence diagram. What grammatical components you should be able to identify before diagramming?īefore we get down to actually diagramming sentences, let’s review the technical elements that sentences are composed of: parts of speech and sentence constituents. The most commonly used method is known as the Reed–Kellogg system, which is what we discuss here. Sentence diagramming uses a fixed set of rules and a standardized “code” of line types (e.g., diagonal lines, dotted lines, etc.) so that anyone who knows how to diagram a sentence can read other people’s sentence diagrams. Knowing how to identify what roles each word plays in a sentence based on their function and placement is an excellent practice for both improving your English writing and learning how to write better sentences. We’ll explain everything you need to know below so that you, too, can understand sentence diagrams. Grammarly helps you communicate confidently Write with Grammarly What is a sentence diagram?Ī sentence diagram is a visual organization system that you can use to see how the parts of speech like nouns, verbs, prepositions, and articles work together and relate to each other in any given sentence.
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