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Hazeleyedgirl Posted 18 years ago
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sentence structures!!! need your comment

Is this correct:

Draw the phrase markers of the following phrase and sentence:

1. these incredibly tasty sandwiches with butter and cheese


2. We were crosing the river in the valley at noon.



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Hello, I tried to see your diagrams and i couldn't find anything wrong with the second one. As for the first one, it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this: butter and cheese: double noun phrases with butter and cheese: prepositional phrase sandwiches with butter and cheese: noun phrase tasty sandwiches with butter and cheese: noun phrase (there is an adjective phrase in the noun phrase) incredibly tasty sandwiches with butter and cheese: I thikn this is a noun phrase which has and adjective and an adverb phrase in it. are: verb phrase these are incredibly tasty sandwiched with butter and cheese: sentence Well, I hope I didn't make any mistakes because I am really really hungry.

  • Hello, I tried to see your diagrams and i couldn't find anything wrong with the second one.
  • As for the first one, it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this: butter and cheese: double noun phrases with butter and cheese: prepositional phrase sandwiches with butter and cheese: noun phrase tasty sandwiches with butter and cheese: noun phrase (there is an adjective phrase in the noun phrase) incredibly tasty sandwiches with butter and cheese: I thikn this is a noun phrase which has and adjective and an adverb phrase in it.
  • are: verb phrase these are incredibly tasty sandwiched with butter and cheese: sentence Well, I hope I didn't make any mistakes because I am really really hungry.
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Hello,

I tried to see your diagrams and i couldn't find anything wrong with the second one. As for the first one, it is really difficult to read the elements but I will do it like this:

butter and cheese: double noun phrases

with butter and cheese: prepositional phrase

sandwiches with butter and cheese: noun phrase

tasty sandwiches with but

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