Summary
Dear sentence, how do I break thee up? In this BrainPOP movie, snowball-fighting Tim and Moby teach you how to diagram sentences, or break them up into their component parts! Learn how to separate the sentence’s subject from its predicate, and how to separate the verb from a direct object. You’ll also find out what to do with compound subjects and what to do when you get prepositional phrases and other modifiers. Finally, you’ll discover just why diagramming sentences is important, what you can learn from it, and how it can improve your own writing. Divide and conquer!
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Discussion questions
A few questions to talk through after watching Diagramming Sentences:
- What is one new thing you learned about diagramming sentences?
- Can you explain it to a partner in your own words?
- Where might you see this in the real world?
- What is one question you still have?
Quick work-a-long
Try it:
- Write one sentence explaining diagramming sentences.
- Draw or give one example of your own.