Diagramming Sentences · A Playful Way to Analyze Everyday Language

This 12-chapter textbook teaches sentence diagramming from beginning

concepts to advanced sentence structures. It was written and designed by

an experienced teacher of Developmental English. The methods and

lessons have been classroom tested, revised, and published here as a

complete sentence diagramming textbook.In addition to examples

and explanations, there are 10 exercise sentences for students to study

and diagram per chapter, and there are additional questions for review

that cover all levels of the Taxonomy. Answer keys appear in the text!

There are also four comprehensive quizzes included at the end of the

text that can be used as pretests or exams.Diagramming sentences

is appropriate for language learners from age 9 to 99, making it a

great tool for teachers, parents, students, and lifelong learners.Need

more? Look for the supplemental materials text called Additional

Exercises for Diagramming Sentences. It contains 150 additional

sentences and answer keys, comprehensive exercises, and additional

examples that follow the main text, chapter by chapter.Specific

topics include simple and compound subjects and predicates, modifiers,

direct and indirect objects, object complements, predicate adjectives

and predicate nominatives, compound, complex, and compound-complex

sentences, interrogative sentences, appositives, direct address,

existential constructions, prepositions and prepositional phrases,

gerunds and gerund phrases, noun and modifying clauses.

Professor Hess has been teaching English and Critical Thinking since 2008, developing, refining, and creating the materials contained in this book: Twelve chapters packed full of illustrations, explanations, practice sentences, and review materials.