diagram a sentence

[rastirizvi@yahoo.com]

Hi Casiopea,
could you please diagram any sentence by using binary tree method.

[chaldoballer1]

can u help me on diagramming???

[jatinsky]

Try this website
Type h-t-t-p-:-/-/-grammar(dot) ccc (dot) commnet(dot)edu/GRAMMAR/diagrams2/diagrams_frames(dot)htm

This is my first post and I am not yet allowed to include a link.

I hope you find this as helpful as I did.

[jatinsky]

Here is a simple sentence.

I eat.

First you find the subject and the verb in the sentences.

I = subject
eat= verb


diagram this way...

Draw a horizontal line with a short perpendicular line going through it. This is the start of most every sentence diagram.

I l eat
l

Now add a direct object to make your sentnce say, I eat food. For the direct object you draw a perpendicular line, but it does not go through the original line.

I l eat l food
l

[jatinsky]

Sorry the formatting messed up the diagrams.

[jatinsky]

I will post one more message . Then I can add a link.

[jatinsky]

Catch my next post. It will have the link I promised.

[jatinsky]

Here is the link! Worth the wait.

DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES

[Frank Antonson]

It sounds a little as if you are trying to re-invent the wheel http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMM...ms_frames.html. That is a website that does a pretty good job of showing the whole system, that is the system used in the United States.

A famous American writer, Gertrude Stein, once said, "I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences."

Of course, you have to study it a little before you can do it.

[Frank Antonson]

That website doesn't look right. Let me try again.
DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES
That looks better.