How Do You Diagram A Sentence That Has A Direct Object?
Are you struggling to help your child identify direct objects in sentences in his grammar homework? This task becomes much easier when you take apart the individual words in the sentence and put them in the graphic form of a diagram. Sentence diagrams can help with the analysis and relative understanding of the words and phrases and can become quite complex. However, to diagram the root of a sentence, you just need to be able to work with the subject, the verb, and the direct object. Start with a sentence that includes a direct object such as this: I kicked the red ball over the fence. Write the sentence on the piece of paper. Do you know which word is the subject? It is the noun or pronoun that does the action of the verb. Here, the subject is “I”. Verbs are words of action or being. Here, the verb is “kicked”. The direct object is the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb. Here the way to find the direct object is to answer the question: “What did I kick?” The direct o
