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limp dick

PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:36 pm
Okay, let me work my nonexistent magic.


Sentence: Jerry walked with Terri up the grocery store and bought some apples.


"Jerry" is the subject.

"with" starts the prepositional phrase "with Terri" which, to be specific, is an adverbial prepositional phrase while "Terri" is the object of the preposition.

"Up the grocery store" is yet another adverbial prepositional phrase with "store" as its object.

"walked. . .and bought" is a compound verb phrase.
"Apples" is the direct object of "bought".
There is no nominitive, direct object, or predicate adjective for "walked".
"some" is, I believe, an adjective for apples.

Out of the structural sentences, it would be a simple sentence.

Thank you, 7th grade english classes.
 
PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:00 pm
limp d**k
Okay, let me work my nonexistent magic.


Sentence: Jerry walked with Terri up the grocery store and bought some apples.


"Jerry" is the subject.

"with" starts the prepositional phrase "with Terri" which, to be specific, is an adverbial prepositional phrase while "Terri" is the object of the preposition.

"Up the grocery store" is yet another adverbial prepositional phrase with "store" as its object.

"walked. . .and bought" is a compound verb phrase.
"Apples" is the direct object of "bought".
There is no nominitive, direct object, or predicate adjective for "walked".
"some" is, I believe, an adjective for apples.

Out of the structural sentences, it would be a simple sentence.

Thank you, 7th grade english classes.


Ooh, memories. Yay! We do those at my school (it's a private school), and I began attending my school just a little over one year ago. I'm the best in my class at it. I'm one of the few that gets it, so I help the other students. That just makes me so happy, and brings back so many fond memories of personal bonding with grammar. heart  

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Rutoh-Chan

PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:02 pm
I've been learning diagramming for the past four years, give or take a few months, and I am one of the most advanced students in my class. At my school you are required to be able to diagram in order to pass English. My eighth grade teacher took my class to debating sentence diagrams by the end of the year. It was impressive. I thinks it is fun, but only when your not stuck in a room with a group of people that do not know how to do it.  
PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:38 pm
Actually, wouldn't "apples" be the direct object of "bought?" That would make "some" a modifier of "apples."  

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:42 pm
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Actually, wouldn't "apples" be the direct object of "bought?" That would make "some" a modifier of "apples."


Is that not what it says?  
PostPosted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:47 pm
Ack, I read that three or four times and completely missed that part. sweatdrop  

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:46 am
limp d**k
Okay, let me work my nonexistent magic.


Sentence: Jerry walked with Terri up the grocery store and bought some apples.


"Jerry" is the subject.

"with" starts the prepositional phrase "with Terri" which, to be specific, is an adverbial prepositional phrase while "Terri" is the object of the preposition.


"Up the grocery store" is yet another adverbial prepositional phrase with "store" as its object.

"walked. . .and bought" is a compound verb phrase.
"Apples" is the direct object of "bought".
There is no nominitive, direct object, or predicate adjective for "walked".
"some" is, I believe, an adjective for apples.

Out of the structural sentences, it would be a simple sentence.

Thank you, 7th grade english classes.

"with Terri" is only an adverbial phrase under walked. (Small detail, but it bugged me.)  
PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:28 am
Rutoh-Chan
limp d**k
Okay, let me work my nonexistent magic.


Sentence: Jerry walked with Terri up the grocery store and bought some apples.


"Jerry" is the subject.

"with" starts the prepositional phrase "with Terri" which, to be specific, is an adverbial prepositional phrase while "Terri" is the object of the preposition.


"Up the grocery store" is yet another adverbial prepositional phrase with "store" as its object.

"walked. . .and bought" is a compound verb phrase.
"Apples" is the direct object of "bought".
There is no nominitive, direct object, or predicate adjective for "walked".
"some" is, I believe, an adjective for apples.

Out of the structural sentences, it would be a simple sentence.

Thank you, 7th grade english classes.

"with Terri" is only an adverbial phrase under walked. (Small detail, but it bugged me.)


uh, no, that's definitely a prepositional phrase.  

The Man who was Thursday


limp dick

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:26 pm
Rutoh-Chan
limp d**k
Okay, let me work my nonexistent magic.


Sentence: Jerry walked with Terri up the grocery store and bought some apples.


"Jerry" is the subject.

"with" starts the prepositional phrase "with Terri" which, to be specific, is an adverbial prepositional phrase while "Terri" is the object of the preposition.


"Up the grocery store" is yet another adverbial prepositional phrase with "store" as its object.

"walked. . .and bought" is a compound verb phrase.
"Apples" is the direct object of "bought".
There is no nominitive, direct object, or predicate adjective for "walked".
"some" is, I believe, an adjective for apples.

Out of the structural sentences, it would be a simple sentence.

Thank you, 7th grade english classes.

"with Terri" is only an adverbial phrase under walked. (Small detail, but it bugged me.)


I beg to differ.
The word "with" is a preposition.  
PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:14 pm
My, it has been quite awhile since I have encountered sentence diagramming.
The last time I encountered it was my seventh grade English class, of which I have fond memories. One irksome factor, though, was those children in the back who insisted on deliberately not paying attention only to hold the class back for the day and making our homework pile.
 

Subservient Nonentity


The One and Only Guardian

PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:18 pm
Yes, I did them just last year. They don't seem to be able to escape my mind.. sweatdrop  
PostPosted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:57 pm
limp d**k
Rutoh-Chan
limp d**k
Okay, let me work my nonexistent magic.


Sentence: Jerry walked with Terri up the grocery store and bought some apples.


"Jerry" is the subject.

"with" starts the prepositional phrase "with Terri" which, to be specific, is an adverbial prepositional phrase while "Terri" is the object of the preposition.


"Up the grocery store" is yet another adverbial prepositional phrase with "store" as its object.

"walked. . .and bought" is a compound verb phrase.
"Apples" is the direct object of "bought".
There is no nominitive, direct object, or predicate adjective for "walked".
"some" is, I believe, an adjective for apples.

Out of the structural sentences, it would be a simple sentence.

Thank you, 7th grade english classes.

"with Terri" is only an adverbial phrase under walked. (Small detail, but it bugged me.)


I beg to differ.
The word "with" is a preposition.

Adverbial phrase is a prepositional phrase that describes a VERB, making it a phrase that acts as an ADVERB, as in ADVERBial. You actually said so yourself in the description. Only you used adverbial prepositional phrase instead of adverbial phrase. They are the same thing. The only point I was trying to make was that "with Terri" only went under walked, not bought, when actually diagrammed out. It does not actually decribe the entire verb.  

Rutoh-Chan

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