Name: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Direct Objects
An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. Articles (a, an, the) are special types of adjectives.
An adverb is a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
A direct object is a noun that receives the action of a verb.
example: A brown squirrel carefully buried the nuts. The word a is a special kind of adjective called an article. The word brown is an adjective that describes squirrel. The word carefully is an adverb that describes the word buried. The word the is a special kind of adjective called an article. The word nuts is a direct object to describe what the squirrel buries.
Here is how you make a diagram of a sentence with adjectives, adverbs and direct objects: squirrel buried nuts. carefully brown A the
Draw a red line below each adjective. Draw a blue line below each adverb. Draw a green line below each direct object. Then diagram each sentence.
1. The young author wrote novels.
2. Maria excitedly ate breakfast.
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3. The blue whale dove deep.
4. The wise woman thoughtfully answered questions.
5. Newborn babies usually cry.
6. The young man often whistles catchy tunes.
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An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. Articles (a, an, the) are special types of adjectives.
An adverb is a word that describes a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
A direct object is a noun that receives the action of a verb. example: A brown squirrel carefully buried the nuts. The word a is a special kind of adjective called an article. The word brown is an adjective that describes squirrel. The word carefully is an adverb that describes the word buried. The word the is a special kind of adjective called an article. The word nuts is a direct object to describe what the squirrel buries.
Here is how you make a diagram of a sentence with adjectives, adverbs and direct objects: squirrel buried nuts. carefully brown A the
Draw a red line below each adjective. Draw a blue line below each adverb. Draw a green line below each direct object. Then diagram each sentence.
1. The young author wrote novels. author wrote novels. young The
2. Maria excitedly ate breakfast. Maria ate breakfast. excitedly
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3. The blue whale dove deep.
whale dove deep. The blue
4. The wise woman thoughtfully answered questions.
woman answered questions. thoughtfully The wise
5. Newborn babies usually cry.
babies cry. Newborn usually
6. The young man often whistles catchy tunes.
man whistles tunes. young often catchy The
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