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LESSON 15: COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS (COMPOUND VERB &
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES) Relevant Review
• Coordinating Conjunctions = for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
• Verb phrases consist of one main verb and one or more helping verbs.
• Prepositions are always in prepositional phrases.
• Prepositional phrases start with a preposition and end with a noun or a pronoun. They act as single parts of speech (adjectives or adverbs).
Lesson
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to diagram compound verb phrases and prepositional phrases. You can already diagram compound subjects, verbs, direct objects, adjectives, and adverbs! Wow!
Diagramming Compound Verb Phrases
Remember that verb phrases consist of one main verb and one or more helping verbs.
There are two possible scenarios when you’re dealing with verb phrases and coordinating conjunctions.
Possibility # 1: The two phrases don’t share any helping verbs.
Diagram these the same way you diagram regular compound verbs.
He can run well and will win the race.
can run = verb phrase will run = verb phrase
Notice that the two main verbs in the verb phrases are different types of verbs. Run is intransitive complete, and win is transitive active. Race is its direct object.
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Possibility # 2: The two phrases share one or more helping verbs.
Both sit and wait are using the helping verb will.
He will sit and wait.
will = helping verb sit, wait = compound main verbs
Diagramming Compound Prepositional Phrases
To diagram compound prepositional phrases, connect the phrases with a dotted line and place the conjunction on the line.
It’s just like diagramming compound adjectives and adverbs.
I ran across the field and over the hill.
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Lesson 15 Sentence Diagramming Exercises
1. Mia and Chad swam across the stream and into the ocean.
Key
Mia and Chad swam across the stream and into the ocean.
sentence - statement
Mia, Chad compound subjects (nouns)
and coordinating conjunction
swam verb (intransitive complete)
across the stream, into the ocean compound prepositional phrases (adverb) (modifying swam)
and coordinating conjunction
across preposition
stream object of the preposition (noun)
the adjective
into preposition
ocean object of the preposition (noun)
the adjective
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2. Can the baby crawl or walk across the room*?
* Notice that the prepositional phrase is modifying both crawl and walk. (Can the baby crawl across the room? Can the baby walk across the room?) We need to put it on a place in the diagram that shows it’s modifying both words. Do you see that both the helping verb can and the prepositional phrase across the room are applying to both of the main verbs?
If something modifies just one main verb, it goes on a line directly under that verb. We’ll see an example of that in # 4.
Key
Can the baby crawl or walk across the room?
sentence – question
The baby can crawl or walk across the room.
sentence – statement
baby subject (noun)
Can crawl, walk verb phrase- compound main verbs
Can helping verb
crawl, walk compound main verbs (intransitive complete)
or coordinating conjunction
across the room prepositional phrase (adverb) (modifying Can crawl, walk)
across preposition
room object of the preposition (noun)
the adjective
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3. The siblings fought during the short yet stressful flight.
Key
The siblings fought during the short yet stressful flight.
sentence - statement
siblings subject (noun)
The adjective
fought verb (intransitive complete)
during the short yet stressful flight prepositional phrase (adverb) (modifying fought)
during preposition
flight object of the preposition (noun)
the adjective
short, stressful compound adjectives
yet coordinating conjunction
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4. Mrs. Greengold’s students will perform well and earn excellent grades.
In this diagram, we have the adverb well modifying only one of the main verbs, perform. The students performed well, they did not earn well.
If well modified both perform and earn, we would put it under the helping verb will as we did with the prepositional phrase in #2. Since it only modifies perform, it goes directly under it.
Be sure to THINK about each word and its function in the sentence as you diagram. J
Key
Mrs. Greengold’s students will perform well and earn excellent grades.
sentence - statement
students subject (noun)
Mrs. Greengold’s adjective
will perform, earn verb phrase- compound main verb
will helping verb
perform main verb (intransitive complete)
well adverb modifying perform
earn main verb (transitive active)
grades direct object (noun)
excellent adjective
and coordinating conjunction
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5. George enjoyed the long and exciting book but disliked the movie.
Key
George enjoyed the long and exciting book but disliked the movie.
sentence – statement
George subject (noun)
enjoyed, disliked compound verb
enjoyed verb (transitive active)
book direct object (noun)
the adjective
long, exciting compound adjectives
and coordinating conjunction
disliked verb (transitive active)
movie direct object (noun)
the adjective
but coordinating conjunction
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