Crash Course in Sentence Diagramming (English Grammar)

Learn 90% of all sentence diagramming in 20 minutes or less!

The only way to diagram sentences is to actually know what you are talking about!  Thus, we are learning much more than how to identify subjects and verbs, where the predicate adjectives go, and so on.

Diagramming is one of the most powerful language tools we can add to our tool kit – as students, as teachers, as communicators of all types. Diagramming certainly improves our grammar vocabulary and grammar awareness, but it also develops our intimacy with the English language, how it works, and what it can do.

By the end of this crash course, you will have 90-95% of the tools and knowledge you need to diagram the structure and meaning of almost any English language sentence.

COURSE CONTENT ~

Lesson 1: Most of What You Need is Right Here (7.5 minutes)

• We work together through 10 levels of sentence complexity.
• You learn how to recognize – and diagram – 20+ grammatical parts, including: 7 of the 8 parts of speech; direct & indirect objects; dependent & independent clauses; coordinating conjunctions; participles; infinitives; subordinating conjunctions; gerunds; adverb clauses; adjectival prepositional phrases; compound-complex sentences; nouns; relative pronouns; and more.

Lesson 2: Three Sentences About Donuts (3.5 minutes)

• This lesson reinforces Lesson 1 and also shows you how to recognize & diagram linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and interrogatives.

Lesson 3: Three Sentences About Dreams (5.5 minutes)

• This lesson reinforces Lectures 1 and 2 and also shows you how to recognize & diagram appositives and noun clauses.

Closing:

• Take a peek at “The Look of Language”