I'm taking a course called Advanced Grammar as a college student and have never seen this stuff in my life. This video was extremely helpful to practice the different set ups of diagramming, so thank you so much!
Ellen, your (adorable) smile reveals the boundless enthusiasm that you have for grammar. It was a pleasure to learn Sentence Diagramming from you. Thank you.
I wanted not just a refresher course but just really wanted to diagram for fun (I'm 65) and for Bible Verse Mapping. It was fun in school, which was a long time ago) and I was sad when you said it has "fallen out of favor in schools". I had to start from the basics. I've about forgotten the basics of sentence structure but I like grammar and think it so important. I like how excited you seem to be to do it. I love to see people love what they're doing. Thank you! I want that shirt also!
I am teaching English here in Thailand . I find your instructional material very useful because my students can visualize rather than deal in English language terminology . Thanks teacher .
Wow, thank you so much for this! I grew up in Indonesia and didn't have any opportunities to learn about sentence diagramming. Hope you keep posting such videos, Ellen! 😊
Loved diagramming when i was a 3rd grader in 1984. I am introducing sentence diagramming to my 3rd graders now and surprisingly they are fascinated by it!
This was super cool to learn! I don't remember learning about diagraming in school. I am in a proofreading program and relearning grammar and punctuation. This has helped a ton! Thank you!
Thank you so much! I learned diagramming when I was in 7th and 8th grade and I loved it. I am going to teach it to my daughter this summer so I wanted a refresher. I was delighted to see I knew how to do most of them even though it’s been over 30 years since I last did it (away with the spoon tricked me, I was thinking with the spoon would go off of away). Anyway, thank you for doing this! I hope she enjoys it as much as I did!
Diagramming is awesome! It requires students know (1) parts of speech and (2) parts of a sentence. It's a visual display of the way all these elements work together. John E. Warriner's "English Grammar and Composition" was the textbook I used teaching students for many years. Entire sections of this book were devoted to diagramming. I still have my copy of it from so many years ago. A classic.
This question-based approach of teaching is excellent. Your point of view of getting the viewer to answer questions is the most effective I found on this subject.I appreciate the little pauses you add to allow the viewer to make an attempt to figure out the answers before you say them. It makes all the difference, thanks!
This was so enjoyable! I was fascinated by sentence diagraming when I was a child in grammar school, while most other classmates hated it, and struggled with it. My hunch is it appeals to certain "analytical" minded type persons, maybe? Because I work professionally with complex music staffs (I am a musician); studied electronics in college and can easily read schematics; and also even learned Chinese Mandarin (reading/writing years ago).
Okay, I had this 58 years ago, so it was time for a review...haha. Loved your presentation. I only wish that my original teacher had been so methodical as you.
Thank you so much for these videos. I have been remiss in teaching the principals of sentence diagramming to our homeschooled son. You have reminded me just how much I loved grammar!!!
Thank you! These two videos were lovely and very helpful! Please do more! I need to teach my kids and there is so much richness to help us understand grammar better through diagrams.
New homeschool mama here. My daughter and I just used your video to help with homeschool curriculum and it was so helpful, thank you so much! I love the pauses to give your viewers time to think about the questions you pose. The explanations are easy to follow along with. Also, my daughter and I are very impressed with the program you are using to display the diagrams, so cool! Might you share what program you are using? We'd love to use it for homeschooling. Thanks again for this helpful and fun video.
I only had one teacher show me this growing up and it was the only way I was ever able to comprehend sentence structure. Thank you for the refresher course!
I enjoyed watching you enjoy yourself. You were trying to be so professional (and you were) but I saw you as little Ellen back in school. Great video!! Thanks
I would appreciate it if you spent some time on the fancier parts of grammar, such as adverbial phrases, moods, clauses etc. I am comfortable with the basics, but I want to go deeper!
I learned diagramming sentences. It is weird. It helps you understand the different parts of a sentence and remember terms for what each word are (sentence structure). Diagramming was something I loved and hated in school. I would forget everything about it in a week, then learn it all over again and be very good at it, then forget it once again.
Thank you, Eslie. Yes, I will do more. I am trying to finish a book first. Also, I would like a pandemic haircut before making more recordings. The hair situation is growing urgent. 😆
Two questions: what application are you using on your tablet/iPad to draw on this video, and which screen recording software did you use to share your tablet screen on this video?
Hello Ellen, thank you so much for your videos!I learned it!How can you diagram the sentence: But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. (quoted from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis)
What program did you use to make your video? I love how you are writing on your device and it's appearing on the video in real time. I could use that with my students too, if only I knew what program it was!
hey, i need help with this: "Adam is having a hard time telling what time to go to cross country." I don't understand what to do with the helping verb "is".
First Adam as subject, then vertical line, then "is helping" together. You don't have to do anything special with "is," and you are allowed to have multiple consecutive verbs in the verb spot. "Have walked," "will be going," and "was diagramming" are other examples that would be diagrammed as verb blobs (that's not a technical term!) in the verb spot.
Hi! I would have to think about this one. My best guess is that you'd diagram "Although it is small, the kitchen is well designed" and place the two implied words ("it" and "is") in parentheses in their spots on the diagram. There may be another diagramming convention for this that I don't know about, though.
Really enjoy learning this. But why are sentences diagrammed? What is the point in diagramming a sentence? What am I missing? I remember in English class in Maryland Junior high, my teacher saying she'd probably be fired if she taught us how to diagram a sentence. In my Baltimore County School classes we never diagrammed sentences.
It's merely one of a number of systems educators have used to try to teach grammatical concepts to children. It's interesting to hear what your teacher said.
@@GrammarTable TY Just FYI - After the war - IMO - Baltimore County schools went progressive teaching "sight" reading instead of phonics. (Our school system did not have kindergarten.) I do remember learning words by sight. TEACHER - "This word is bed....you can know because it looks like a bed.". So I and many others grew up without diagramming sentences and with a worthless way to read. I remember in second grade when the teacher made me stand up to read. When I didn't know the word she said impatiently..."SOUND THE WORD OUT". I had no idea what she meant! The word did not look like bed! There was no internet then and I didn't learn phonics until Mrs. Loudermilk's reading class at Towson University. Now I've learned diagramming...
@@GrammarTable It's very true....that is what the teacher said when learning English in her class. Someone had asked her a question where she said the point would be easy to see if she could show a diagrammed sentence. Same with the teacher telling me to sound the word out. I hated school.....and became a school teacher grades 5 to 12. You made the video very interesting!
@@kfoster3616 thank you for that story. I think phonics lessons were a regular part of my early school days. I don't remember too many details, but I seem to recall it was kind of fun.
Probably the latter, but I need to look this one up and I'm not near my books now. I believe the way I learned it in 1979 is (quite reasonably) not the way it was taught in later years. If you are still curious and it takes me a while to come back, please feel free to email me at ellen@grammartable.com.
Hey Ellen...did you personally draw all those animals? 😄 You really love grammar. Shows in minute 14 when you are elated with new properties concerning grammar
I cannot remember my personal diagramming history well enough to do this. 😄 A skilled writer-artist can get away with an extremely long sentence. Most people who write extremely long sentences are just giving the reader brain pain, however. No maximum number of words for me. I feel these things out more instinctively than that.
My grandfather was an English teacher. Cousin then became on. Told him prefer US language to kill the language barrier. Yet, did enjoy diagramming sentences it NEEDED PICTURES as far as i was concerned. A felt board some art with it to bring it to life. Learning to animate or claymation art and design while learning how to diagram a sentence for writing purposes really helped me. Other kids do need this training as their grammar skills are lacking. It helps to have images art 🎨 involved at least it did me. Cutting up old books. Doing a junk grammar journal which is funny and fun My Mad Libs I called it. Had fun playing school at home less so at actual school 🏫. Would take all the lessons teach them to my stuffed fur friends and we had fun. Naturally they were better company the real critter friends than say this species other kids. Had the best time writing on drywall tape my dad had piecing sentences together and stories. Was so much fun. Then seeing older kids of my ex the poor education they received was heartbreaking. Didn't think could successfully homeschool them as I'm aware social skills is also part of development. On my end this species is the one i dislike being around the most. Still love people rather watch my rabbits eat in a garden of our own. Now, reading this comment you can correct my grammar mistakes. Lol
how many series you have on sentence diagramming. i could find only part 1 and part 2 on you tube. i am sure you will have more ,if so ,can you provide the links of other series.
My 7th grader is struggling with diagramming sentences. This video is awesome and exactly what she needs. Thank you so much!
I love how she even has a diagraming shirt on 😆
Thematically appropriate grammar fashion is important.
@@GrammarTable cool
I was just about to ask if someone else noticed that! She does such a good job at explaining how to diagram sentences.
Its so cute ! I want one xD
Ur profile picture 😂
You're a great teacher. Your genuine enthusiasm shines through.
I'm taking a course called Advanced Grammar as a college student and have never seen this stuff in my life. This video was extremely helpful to practice the different set ups of diagramming, so thank you so much!
Ellen, your (adorable) smile reveals the boundless enthusiasm that you have for grammar. It was a pleasure to learn Sentence Diagramming from you. Thank you.
*your
Clever.
I wanted not just a refresher course but just really wanted to diagram for fun (I'm 65) and for Bible Verse Mapping. It was fun in school, which was a long time ago) and I was sad when you said it has "fallen out of favor in schools". I had to start from the basics. I've about forgotten the basics of sentence structure but I like grammar and think it so important. I like how excited you seem to be to do it. I love to see people love what they're doing. Thank you! I want that shirt also!
Ooh, I never thought about diagramming Bible verses! That could be super helpful! (Romans, I'm looking at you!) Thanks, from a total nerd. 🤓
Hi Teresa, grammar T-shirts (this and others) are available on the grammartable.com site!
Im glad im not the only person who gained a love for language after learning these diagrams
Thank you sooooo much I have an English exam tomorrow, you are a lifesaver
Thanks for simplifying and show great examples to people who have not much of an idea of how to diagram
You're truly a great teacher
This woman truly gets jazzed up about diagraming sentences, love the enthusiasm 😊
I am teaching English here in Thailand . I find your instructional material very useful because my students can visualize rather than deal in English language terminology . Thanks teacher .
1 am a middle age woman who wants to be more precise and disciplined with my sentences so I am very grateful I found your channel. Thank you
Wow, thank you so much for this! I grew up in Indonesia and didn't have any opportunities to learn about sentence diagramming. Hope you keep posting such videos, Ellen! 😊
Loved diagramming when i was a 3rd grader in 1984. I am introducing sentence diagramming to my 3rd graders now and surprisingly they are fascinated by it!
Coming across this for the first time in my life as a middle aged Mum! Quite helpful for hermeneutics. Thank you for sharing.
wait 'til you diagram Paul's letters
@@mikeswheelsnow, that would be something! Praise the Lord for His Word and the tools we have to understand truth! Are you a Hermeneutics person?
Realmente, as Cartas de Paulo são extratosféricas. 😅
This was super cool to learn! I don't remember learning about diagraming in school. I am in a proofreading program and relearning grammar and punctuation. This has helped a ton! Thank you!
I'm so glad you found it helpful!
I love how excited you get about grammar!
Thank you so much! I learned diagramming when I was in 7th and 8th grade and I loved it. I am going to teach it to my daughter this summer so I wanted a refresher. I was delighted to see I knew how to do most of them even though it’s been over 30 years since I last did it (away with the spoon tricked me, I was thinking with the spoon would go off of away). Anyway, thank you for doing this! I hope she enjoys it as much as I did!
Diagramming is awesome! It requires students know (1) parts of speech and (2) parts of a sentence. It's a visual display of the way all these elements work together. John E. Warriner's "English Grammar and Composition" was the textbook I used teaching students for many years. Entire sections of this book were devoted to diagramming. I still have my copy of it from so many years ago. A classic.
I like how she likes teaching the topic. Thank you.
I never knew I loved sentence diagramming so much. Thank you, Ellen. It was perfect.
😭😢😂✋😊😆😭
This question-based approach of teaching is excellent. Your point of view of getting the viewer to answer questions is the most effective I found on this subject.I appreciate the little pauses you add to allow the viewer to make an attempt to figure out the answers before you say them. It makes all the difference, thanks!
This was so enjoyable! I was fascinated by sentence diagraming when I was a child in grammar school, while most other classmates hated it, and struggled with it. My hunch is it appeals to certain "analytical" minded type persons, maybe? Because I work professionally with complex music staffs (I am a musician); studied electronics in college and can easily read schematics; and also even learned Chinese Mandarin (reading/writing years ago).
I had a really great teacher in the early 70s who taught diagramming so well. I really enjoyed it and learned so much.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial!
I woke up this morning wanting a diagraming refresher lesson and then I found your channel. Thank you! 🤓
Okay, I had this 58 years ago, so it was time for a review...haha. Loved your presentation. I only wish that my original teacher had been so methodical as you.
I didn't know diagramming can be this easy! We didn't learn this in the Philippines.
Thanks for sharing this on YT! 🥳
this makes me feel like the world makes sense again
Thank you so much for these videos. I have been remiss in teaching the principals of sentence diagramming to our homeschooled son. You have reminded me just how much I loved grammar!!!
Thank you! These two videos were lovely and very helpful! Please do more! I need to teach my kids and there is so much richness to help us understand grammar better through diagrams.
You explained this so well. Other resources aren't so good. Thank you.
Hello from the Dominican Republic. My congratulations on such great class about diagramming sentences. Keep up the excellent job!
Thank you! The secrets of sentence diagramming are finally revealed to me!
New homeschool mama here. My daughter and I just used your video to help with homeschool curriculum and it was so helpful, thank you so much! I love the pauses to give your viewers time to think about the questions you pose. The explanations are easy to follow along with. Also, my daughter and I are very impressed with the program you are using to display the diagrams, so cool! Might you share what program you are using? We'd love to use it for homeschooling. Thanks again for this helpful and fun video.
We found the name of the program on one of the comments, thank you!
Straight to the point and super helpful. This was a great video. Thank you!
I only had one teacher show me this growing up and it was the only way I was ever able to comprehend sentence structure. Thank you for the refresher course!
I've never seen someone who couldn't help smiling with excitement while talking about grammar.
I loved diagramming in school!! I am so glad I found this channel ! Thank You!!
I need that t-shirt!
I absolutely loved diagramming sentences in school.
Fabulous video. Thanks.
Love how you break things down hope for more videos
This totally ties in with mind mapping. Thank you!!
I enjoyed watching you enjoy yourself. You were trying to be so professional (and you were) but I saw you as little Ellen back in school. Great video!! Thanks
Haha! There is some continuity.
This helped me so much
I wish I had you as my grammar teacher in school! 😭 I would have loved grammar!
😂 same 0-0
@@yourfavoritgremlin i still can't do this-
This outstanding video came at the right time for me. I hope you will continue this series. Thank you Ellen Jovin.
Thank YOU. More diagramming or just more grammar?
@@GrammarTable I would benefit greatly from both. Your style of clear, concise and to the point teaching made it easy for me. Thank you again, bp
I would appreciate it if you spent some time on the fancier parts of grammar, such as adverbial phrases, moods, clauses etc. I am comfortable with the basics, but I want to go deeper!
This is such a great reminder video before I take my TEAS test. Thank you! I haven’t studied grammar since 5th grade. Lol
Thanks! Good luck with your test, Kylie!
So helpful! Thank you Miss. Ellen. 🙂
Really great video! It helped me prep for a last minute tutorial, so thanks!
she just made me enjoy diagramming. wow.
THANK YOUUU 😭 I FINALLY UNDERSTAND I'M GONNA CRY
Your nerdy love of your subject is quite endearing. Everyone should embrace their inner nerd. 😅
Well, l smiled as she explained, excitedly, this mini lesson on sentence diagramming!
I love the way you explain. It would be helpful to label the sentence as you go.
Thx so much I'm in 6th grade and I really needed this!
Diagramming brings structure and understanding; may I plead more if you have time ? thank you, bp
Thanks for these videos.
It seems that you have a very nice library behind you. What about a bookshelf tour video?
Totally agree. But this diagramming stuff is the best!
In elementary school I mastered sentence diagrams! Unfortunately my children will never experience this in school. I will teach them!
Hi Ms. ellen I'm struggling with sentence diagramming because our teacher didn't teach this one😭😭
I learned diagramming sentences. It is weird. It helps you understand the different parts of a sentence and remember terms for what each word are (sentence structure). Diagramming was something I loved and hated in school. I would forget everything about it in a week, then learn it all over again and be very good at it, then forget it once again.
This is so much and brings back memories. Are you doing more videos ?
Thank you, Eslie. Yes, I will do more. I am trying to finish a book first. Also, I would like a pandemic haircut before making more recordings. The hair situation is growing urgent. 😆
This is great, but I wish each part of speech was colored to distinguish each on the diagram and the sentence.
this made me cry
im in 7th grade and im absoloutely clueless
@@mkay5132 Same lmao i’m failing grammar
Hmm, provoking tears was not my goal.
@@mkay5132 one step at a time!
@@user-cj3vz4bi6o what is the biggest challenge?
Oh thanks. It helped me a lot.
Two questions: what application are you using on your tablet/iPad to draw on this video, and which screen recording software did you use to share your tablet screen on this video?
Paper by WeTransfer is the software app I use for drawing on the iPad, and then I use Ecamm Live for the sharing and recording.
Hello Ellen, thank you so much for your videos!I learned it!How can you diagram the sentence: But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. (quoted from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis)
I just saw this, late. Did you figure it out? That's a long sentence to diagram. You were actually assigned that?
@Lara Pan Link to your best attempt and then have it corrected.
What a hoot! I'm giving it a go.
@@GrammarTable I assigned it to my students, I spent a whole night trying to figure it out and then with my teacher colleague’s help I got it…
@@larapan3706 yay!
Do you have other grammar videos to watch? I love your tutorials, and have watched all three. .
I don't. Yet. I will try to make more. I am afraid I am more of a writer than a committed video maker. 😀Thank you for asking.
Thank you so much !
I’d like to know which app you’re using for the presentation.
Ecamm to bring different elements into one screen, and for the drawing I use Paper by WeTransfer.
What program did you use to make your video? I love how you are writing on your device and it's appearing on the video in real time. I could use that with my students too, if only I knew what program it was!
I use Ecamm! It's amazing.
Thank you so much for this video! You are a great teacher. :)
Wow good job and thank you miss💖
We covered this from 5th grade - 8th grade and many years later, all I remember is the subject and predicate lol
Where can I get a t-shirt like yours??
www.grammartable.com/product/sentence-diagram-t-shirt
Great video thanks
That shirt 👍
Ikr 😆🤣
I love your shirt. Where can I get one?!
Thank you, Melinda, and I'm sorry I was so late to see this. Here: www.grammartable.com/product/sentence-diagram-t-shirt
hey, i need help with this:
"Adam is having a hard time telling what time to go to cross country."
I don't understand what to do with the helping verb "is".
First Adam as subject, then vertical line, then "is helping" together. You don't have to do anything special with "is," and you are allowed to have multiple consecutive verbs in the verb spot. "Have walked," "will be going," and "was diagramming" are other examples that would be diagrammed as verb blobs (that's not a technical term!) in the verb spot.
This is great! Thank you for your help!
Hello: Could you help me diagramming 'although small' in the sentence: Although small, the kitchen is well designed.
Hi! I would have to think about this one. My best guess is that you'd diagram "Although it is small, the kitchen is well designed" and place the two implied words ("it" and "is") in parentheses in their spots on the diagram. There may be another diagramming convention for this that I don't know about, though.
Where is your shirt from?
grammartable.com/collections/t-shirts/products/sentence-diagram-t-shirt-unisex
Really enjoy learning this. But why are sentences diagrammed? What is the point in diagramming a sentence? What am I missing? I remember in English class in Maryland Junior high, my teacher saying she'd probably be fired if she taught us how to diagram a sentence. In my Baltimore County School classes we never diagrammed sentences.
It's merely one of a number of systems educators have used to try to teach grammatical concepts to children. It's interesting to hear what your teacher said.
@@GrammarTable TY Just FYI - After the war - IMO - Baltimore County schools went progressive teaching "sight" reading instead of phonics. (Our school system did not have kindergarten.) I do remember learning words by sight. TEACHER - "This word is bed....you can know because it looks like a bed.". So I and many others grew up without diagramming sentences and with a worthless way to read. I remember in second grade when the teacher made me stand up to read. When I didn't know the word she said impatiently..."SOUND THE WORD OUT". I had no idea what she meant! The word did not look like bed! There was no internet then and I didn't learn phonics until Mrs. Loudermilk's reading class at Towson University. Now I've learned diagramming...
@@GrammarTable It's very true....that is what the teacher said when learning English in her class. Someone had asked her a question where she said the point would be easy to see if she could show a diagrammed sentence. Same with the teacher telling me to sound the word out. I hated school.....and became a school teacher grades 5 to 12. You made the video very interesting!
@@kfoster3616 thank you for that story. I think phonics lessons were a regular part of my early school days. I don't remember too many details, but I seem to recall it was kind of fun.
Love this! May I ask what program (?) you are using that flips the pages like that? Thank you!
Sorry for the slow reply, Lenore! Paper by WeTransfer on my iPad.
I like the diagramming more than phrase marker stuff
In the sentence: He is in love, should 'in love' go beneath 'love' or be treated as subject complement?
Probably the latter, but I need to look this one up and I'm not near my books now. I believe the way I learned it in 1979 is (quite reasonably) not the way it was taught in later years. If you are still curious and it takes me a while to come back, please feel free to email me at ellen@grammartable.com.
Hey Ellen...did you personally draw all those animals? 😄
You really love grammar. Shows in minute 14 when you are elated with new properties concerning grammar
Thank you. I did draw them, yes. My drawing skills haven't really advanced much since grade school. 😄
Im going to use this grammar diagram method to help my wife understand english grammar.
Wonderful! What software do you use?
Thanks! Paper by WeTransfer for the drawing and Ecamm for the recording.
Please post the longest sentence you have ever diagrammed. Do you have your own rule as to the maximum number of words that should be in one sentence?
I cannot remember my personal diagramming history well enough to do this. 😄 A skilled writer-artist can get away with an extremely long sentence. Most people who write extremely long sentences are just giving the reader brain pain, however. No maximum number of words for me. I feel these things out more instinctively than that.
I"m working on some topical joke writing and I'm curious to know if you take requests... some setups are extra complex.
Maybe. I'd have to see it. 😀 You can email me at ellen@grammartable.com.
My grandfather was an English teacher. Cousin then became on. Told him prefer US language to kill the language barrier. Yet, did enjoy diagramming sentences it NEEDED PICTURES as far as i was concerned. A felt board some art with it to bring it to life. Learning to animate or claymation art and design while learning how to diagram a sentence for writing purposes really helped me. Other kids do need this training as their grammar skills are lacking. It helps to have images art 🎨 involved at least it did me. Cutting up old books. Doing a junk grammar journal which is funny and fun My Mad Libs I called it.
Had fun playing school at home less so at actual school 🏫. Would take all the lessons teach them to my stuffed fur friends and we had fun. Naturally they were better company the real critter friends than say this species other kids. Had the best time writing on drywall tape my dad had piecing sentences together and stories.
Was so much fun. Then seeing older kids of my ex the poor education they received was heartbreaking. Didn't think could successfully homeschool them as I'm aware social skills is also part of development. On my end this species is the one i dislike being around the most. Still love people rather watch my rabbits eat in a garden of our own.
Now, reading this comment you can correct my grammar mistakes. Lol
This is great!
how many series you have on sentence diagramming. i could find only part 1 and part 2 on you tube. i am sure you will have more ,if so ,can you provide the links of other series.
That's all I have right now, Jain. Sorry! I expect to do more videos, but I am finishing a book first.
Very nice!
is there a good resource that categorizes all the possible elements that would get diagrammed?
You can try this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0205209521/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
What program did you use for the whiteboard??? I’m obsessed
Thank you!!
Is this diagramming sentences work for ielts reading? Iam struggling with reading.. Need your help!
Hi Mohammad, I'd recommend focusing on other things (not diagramming) if your goal is to improve your reading skills in English.
Do you tutor Shurley English?
I had never heard of it until I saw your question, so I'm afraid not. 😊
thanks very helpful ^^