Friday, February 10, 2012

Sentence Diagramming: I.O.'s, D.O.'s, and "and's" and "or's"

Over the last few days, we have been diagramming sentences.  Below are the screen shots for the homework from Wednesday:


There's a few cool things going on here:
  • notice how "and" and "or" join things in a triangle.
  • notice how a direct object is set apart from the action verb by a line ascending from the base line.
  • notice how an indirect object dangles off of the action verb.