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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
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Tree diagram, analyse a sentence.

How to make a tree diagram for the sentence:

He found his secretary a reliable typist

I know He is a NP, Found is a VP, his secretary is a NP and a reliable typist is a NP.
But how can a make a tree diagram for this sentence? Its so hard !!

AS
  

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Anonymous How to make a tree diagram for the sentence: He found his secretary a reliable typist I know He is a NP , Found is a VP , his secretary is a NP and a reliable typist is a NP . But how can a make a tree diagram for this sentence? Its so hard !!

— BillJ

  • Anonymous How to make a tree diagram for the sentence: He found his secretary a reliable typist I know He is a NP , Found is a VP , his secretary is a NP and a reliable typist is a NP .
  • But how can a make a tree diagram for this sentence?
  • Its so hard !!
  • AS I can't diagram it properly for you because of EF software limitations, but the basic analysis from top to bottom (excluding the detailed analysis of the NP Object and NP Complement) is: ----------------------------------------------- Clause -------------------------------------------- Subject ------------------------ Predicate ------------------------------------- NP (VP) Predicator Object Complement (objective) V NP NP 'He' 'found' 'his secretary' 'a reliable typist' I'm sorry if this doesn't all line up perfectly.
  • BillJ
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AnonymousHow to make a tree diagram for the sentence:

He found his secretary a reliable typist

I know He is a NP, Found is a VP, his secretary is a NP and a reliable typist is a NP.
But how can a make a tree diagram for this sentence? Its so hard !!

AS

I can't diagram it properly for you because
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Thanks ! But I need the full tree diagram. Right down to the word class. With determiner and postmodifiers.

Really hard task
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AnonymousThanks ! But I need the full tree diagram. Right down to the word class. With determiner and postmodifiers.

Really hard task
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he: subject (noun phrase- pronoun)

found: verb

his secretary: object (noun phrase: his: modifier, secretary: noun)

a reliable typist: complement ( noun phrase: article:a, reliable: adjectve, typist noun)
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"his secretary: object (noun phrase: his: modifier, secretary: noun)"

(noun phrase: his: determiner...)
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