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XenonXDX Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

How to diagram this sentence

Hey guys,

I am trying since hours to diagram this sentence here "Determined to win a scholarship, Maggie wrote the best essay of her High School career." Can somebody help me ? It is diagram with all this line etc.


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The format of this website does not lend itself to diagramming sentences. However, 'determined to win a scholarship' is a participle clause which acts as a secondary predicate for the subject of the main clause ( Maggie ). Its implicit subject is therefore 'Maggie'.

  • The format of this website does not lend itself to diagramming sentences.
  • However, 'determined to win a scholarship' is a participle clause which acts as a secondary predicate for the subject of the main clause ( Maggie ).
  • Its implicit subject is therefore 'Maggie'.
  • The finite-clause counterpart is Maggie was determined to win a scholarship.
  • 'wrote' is the main verb.
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The format of this website does not lend itself to diagramming sentences.

However, 'determined to win a scholarship' is a participle clause which acts as a secondary predicate for the subject of the main clause (Maggie). Its implicit subject is therefore 'Maggie'. The finite-clause counterpart is

Maggie was determined to win a scholarship.

'wrote' is the

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