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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Parse the sentence

BY the time the doctor arrived the patient was sick.
  

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I can't do the diagram here, but I can give you some directions: Main clause: The patient | was / sick. The first clause all is adverbial, listed under the verb 'was' [roughly]: the doctor | arrived (by the time) listed under 'arrived'.

  • I can't do the diagram here, but I can give you some directions: Main clause: The patient | was / sick.
  • The first clause all is adverbial, listed under the verb 'was' [roughly]: the doctor | arrived (by the time) listed under 'arrived'.
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I can't do the diagram here, but I can give you some directions:

Main clause: The patient | was / sick.

The first clause all is adverbial, listed under the verb 'was' [roughly]:

the doctor | arrived (by the time) listed under 'arrived'.

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