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Sentences

  1. Subject
  2. Verb
  3. Conjunction (including subordinating conjunctions)
  4. Adjective
  5. Adverbs
  6. Direct Objects
  7. Indirect Objects
  8. Predicate Nominatives (sometimes called a predicate noun)
  9. Predicate Adjectives
  10. Prepositions
  11. Object of the preposition
  12. Participles
  13. Gerunds
  14. Infinitives
  15. Appositives
  16. Relative Pronouns

II. Sentences

C. Complex sentences- complex sentences contain an independent clause and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses.

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Complex sentences contain one independent clause (main clause) plus one or more dependent or subordinate clauses.

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Now you try it! Exercise 6

Diagram the following sentences:

  1. Mr. Scalo frowns when we don’t do our homework.
  2. Wendy knows where the bodies are buried.
  3. Jazmyn left as quickly as she could.
  4. Kate grunts when she plays tennis.
  5. James Madison listened as John Marshall read his decision.
  6. Mr. Trump wondered when the hamburgers would arrive.
  7. Joan of Arc acted when God spoke to her.
  8. Emily attends the roller derby whenever it’s in town.
  9. Abraham Lincoln wept as he heard the sad news.
  10. Rowan knows what to do once the alarm sounds.

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