Question and Answer flow for sentences
This is a general question and answer flow guide that will help you remember the order of most of the questions you will use to classify sentences.

To find the subject:
1. Reread the sentence: The big dog barked loudly at the cows.
2. To find the subject, ask the subject question "who or "what" and reread the sentence
Example" What barked loudly at the cows? Dog - SN (say subject noun)

To find the verb:
3. Make sure you have marked the subject with the SN abbreviation.
4. To find the verb, ask the verb question "what is being said about" and then say the subject. Next, say the subject and verb together and make sure they make sense together. Label the verb with a "V" abbreviation.
Example: What is being said about the dog? Dog barked - V(say verb not V)

To find the adverb:
5. An adverb modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb. go to the verb first and ask an adverb question.
6. To find an adverb, say the verb and ask one of the adverb questions "how, when, where." Label the adverb with an "Adv" abbreviation.
Example: Barked how? loudly - Adv (say adverb not Adv)

To find the preposition and the object of the preposition:
7. A preposition is a connecting word. It connects a noun or pronoun to the rest of the sentence
8. An object of the preposition is a noun or pronoun after the preposition in a sentence.
9. A preposition must alway have a noun or pronoun (an object of the preposition) after it.
10. To find a preposition, say the preposition word and ask the question what or whom to find the object of the preposition. Label the preposition with a "P" abbreviation and label the object of the preposition with an "OP" abbreviation.
Example: At - P (say preposition not P)
At what? cows - OP (say object of the preposition not OP)

To find the article adjective:
11. There are three article adjectives: a, an, the. Article adjectives are also called noun markers because they tell that a noun is close by. Article adjectives must be memorized.
12. To find the article adjective, just memorize the three words. Each time you see one of them in a sentences say "article adjective" and label it with an "A" abbreviation.

To find the adjective:
13. An adjective modifies a noun or a pronoun. Go to a noun or pronoun and ask an adjective question.
14. To find an adjective, use the noun and ask one of the adjectives questions "what kind, which one, or how many." Label the adjective with an "Adj" abbreviation.
Example: What kind of dog? big - Adj (say adjective not Adj)