Planets | revolve
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The class can see by this picture that Planets revolve is a sentence, that planets is the subject, and that revolve is the predicate.
These signs, or illustrations, made up of straight lines, we call
+Diagrams+.
+DEFINITION.—A Diagram is a picture of the offices and relations of the different parts of a sentence+.
Analyze and diagram the following sentences.
1. Waves dash. 2. Kings reign. 3. Fruit ripens. 4. Stars shine. 5. Steel tarnishes. 6. Insects buzz. 7. Paul preached. 8. Poets sing. 9. Nero fiddled. 10. Larks sing. 11. Water ripples. 12. Lambs frisk. 13. Lions roar. 14. Tigers growl. 15. Breezes sigh. 16. Carthage fell. 17. Morning dawns. 18. Showers descended. 19. Diamonds sparkle. 20. Alexander conquered. 21. Jupiter thunders. 22. Columbus sailed, 23. Grammarians differ. 24. Cornwallis surrendered.
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LESSON 8.
SENTENCE-BUILDING.
You have now learned to analyze sentences, that is, to separate them into their parts. You must next learn to put these parts together, that is, to build sentences.