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hello!I need help to analais this sentence pleace!!  Charlie wanted to borrow the lorry his grannie had in the brown cupboard.If anybody can help me son I will apiciated.thanks!!

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AnonymousCharlie wanted to borrow the lorry his grannie had in the brown cupboard.

There are so many bizarre styles of analysis I'm not really sure how to help you.
I'll try to say a few things about the grammar of your sentence as I understand it.

"Charlie" is both the subject and the simple subject.

"Wanted" is the main finite verb.

The remainder of the sentence could be called an infinitive phrase, and the whole thing is the direct object of the verb.

It all tells what Charlie wanted.

You could also say that the infinitve "to borrow" is by itself the direct object of the verb.

Since the infinitive is a verbal, it too can have a direct object.

"The lorry" is the direct object of "to borrow." Some people would probably call it a complement, or an "object complement."

The remainder of the sentence following "the lorry" modifies "lorry."

I'd say there's a "which" in front of it, which has been elipsed.

"Which his grannie had in the brown cupboard" is a defining or restricting (clause) telling us which lorry we're talking about.

"His granny had which in the brown cupboard" considered as a relative clause, would have "his granny" as the subject (possessive adjective and noun) and "had" as the verb. I suppose "which" is the object, but it doesn't really exist.

"In the brown cupboard" is a prepositional phrase functioning adverbially, telling where she had it.

"Cupboard" (noun) is object of the preposition, and "brown" is an adjective modifying "cupboard."

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hello;

thank you a lot for your answer, you have been of great help. it was just what I was asking for.

kind regards!!!

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