Sentence Elements
| S – V | Time | Place | Manner | Reason | ||||
| (He eats/He ate…) | (When) | (Where) | (How) | (Why) | ||||
| Adverbs | yesterday | there | quickly | |||||
| last night | here | sloppily | ||||||
| Prepositional | at 7:00 | in the house | with a fork | for fun | ||||
| Phrase | ||||||||
| Adverbial Clause | when he | wherever he can | as a good | because he’s | ||||
| finishes work | boy should | hungry | ||||||
| Other | to get fat | |||||||
| (infinitive) | ||||||||
| S – V | Duration | Frequency | Contrast | Condition | ||||
| (He works/worked/ | (How long) | (How often) | (To show a | (Under what | ||||
| has worked…) | difference) | conditions) | ||||||
| Adverb | forever | sometimes | anyway | |||||
| always | ||||||||
| Prepositional | for two hours | on Thursdays | despite his | for pay only | ||||
| Phrase | illness | |||||||
| Adverbial Clause | as long as | whenever he | although he | if he feels good | ||||
| he can | has time | doesn’t get paid |
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