How to diagram a sentence? Please help. Thankyou!

Question

"The thought of slavery made men like William Wilberforce sad."

and

"As a member of parliament, Mr. Willberforce made the ending of slavery his goal."

Please HELP. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hello Kaitlyn L.

To answer your question:

1. You want to understand the different parts of speech.
2. Nouns would be a person, place or a thing.
3. Member, Parliament, Mr. William Wilberforce, slavery, goal
4. Pronouns are words for example, he, she, they, it, or who, or his which represent nouns.

1. Verbs are action words.
2. made is a verb in your sentence, drive, eat
3. Adjectives are description words that apply to nouns.
4. red car, blue sky, zealous person
5. Adverbs, like adjectives, are words that describe; however, adverbs apply to verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs, not just nouns like the adjectives.
6. Quickly in quickly run, quite in quite rapidly

1. Participles are words formed from verbs that act like adjectives or nouns.
2. Working in the phrase working class, running in the phrase running car