A Murder of Crows, a Paliament of Rooks

1. Crows, one of the most intelligent bird species on the planet, use tools to manage their lives in almost the same way that humans do.
2. The crow in today’s PCM (pop culture moment) is using our own technology to survive in its environment, which speaks to the analytical skills of the “bird-brain.”
3. Crows are not the only members of the Corvidae family to use tools; magpies and ravens also use detritus from the human world for their own benefit. diagram #3, please! 

This is how you find the subject of a sentence.
This is how you find the verb.
This is how you find the direct object.
This is the definition of an indirect object
This is what a predicate nominative is.
This is what an implied subject is.
This is the adjective scale of intensity. 
This is an appositive. 
These are prepositional phrases,
These are notes on the adjective and adverb functions of a prepositional phrase.
This is the passive voice. Fix it, it's all Rule of Five now.
This is a gerund, which is a verbal.
These are infinitives, which are also verbals.
These are participles, which are your third and final form of verbals.  

This deals with the subordinate clause.  NEW AS OF February 15

Punctuation
Here is where you find the seven rules for commas. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the links.

Literary Terms
This is the definition of irony
This is the definition of 'schools of criticism.'
This is the definition of satire
This is the definition of plot structure.  
This is the definition of symbolism
This is a definition of THEME in LITERATURE.   NEW as of February 1, 2011