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today we are gonna talk about the basics of sentence diagramming sentence ty gramming is a method that was once used in many US schools to teach grammar has fallen out of favor although there are still pockets of it around the country I loved it beyond all reason and it's probably the main thing when I was in school that attracted me to grammar and made me interested in pursuing it even into adulthood so we're gonna start with the basics and then move on to increasingly more advanced elements with more sessions to follow to cover the really advanced stuff alright here we go the very first thing we're going to talk about is the sentence this is this is one of the shorter sentences that you can have so your job when you're diagramming is to decide first of all what the subject is and what the predicate is you do not have a lot of choices here if you're thinking to yourself Turtles is the subject you are correct and the first task of a sentence diagram or is to draw a line now you can draw it you have to decide what kind of line draw you are are you going to be a free-form line draw as I just as I am and draw a line that may or may not be totally straight or are you going to be a ruler user kind of person and do this kind of line I personally prefer the Messier approach but this is entirely a matter of personal taste so I will leave that up to you in sentence diagramming on the horizontal line the main elements that you must get on this line are the subject which is turtles here and then you decide what the predicate is and you look specifically for the verb here the verb is travel so then your next task is to draw a big line going right through your horizontal line and then on the other side you put the verb and since there are only two words in the sentence we have now diagrammed our first sentence and we are ready for something more advanced so let us move along to this now for word sentence much longer what is the subject of the sentence if you're thinking rabbit you are correct so let's draw the line again you put the rabbit on the horizontal line on the left and then the question is what is the verb in this case as in many sentences there's more than one bourbon or rope in a row you have here is eating so you just stick that whole thing on the horizontal line and the only thing that we have left to decide now is what to do with my anything that points to describes modifies the noun which is rabbit in this case it's a noun and it's also the grammatical subject of the sentence anything that falls into a general bucket of adjectives or that is an article such as a northa or that is a possessive adjective such as my her your etc that always goes on a nice tidy died in the line below the subject and then you keep you preserved the capitalization and that helps the person looking at the diagram tell what the first word in the sentence was so I always like to keep the capitalization just as it was in the sentence and now we are ready for a new...