Sentence Diagramming
I am trying to diagram the sentence "Barry gave a speech called "Time." Where would I put the word "called"? Would it be on a separate base line?
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" Where would I put the word "called"? Would it be on a separate base line? Diagram it the same way you would diagram Barry gave a speech which was called "Time".
- " Where would I put the word "called"?
- Would it be on a separate base line?
- Diagram it the same way you would diagram Barry gave a speech which was called "Time".
- Put 'which was' in parentheses.
- Yes, you will need a separate base line.
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Diagram it the same way you would diagram
Barry gave a speech which was called "Time".
Put 'which was' in parentheses. Yes, you will need a separate base line.
CJ
0"Called" is head of the past participial clause modifying the nominal "speech". There is no reason to treat it differently to the verb in any other clause.
Here is a simplified tree of your sentence where the whole subordinate clause "called time" is labelled as modifier of "speech", the head of the NP object :
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