I love old-fashioned diagramming (it is no longer taught in most American schools). But I don't have the computer skills (or software) to write the actual diagrams. Until a smarter person than I (am) answers you, may I try my best? (l) car -

Tell me wether the word is a predicate adjective, Subect, Direct Obejest, Objective of a proposition, possesive noun, action verb, preposition, linking verb, Indirect Object, or predicate noun of each sentence. We walk to school with our friends.

I was taught that prepositional phrases were essentially "expendable" components of a sentence that, while referring to the subject-predicate, are 'not really there.' In the context of the following sentence the author uses a

No, 'well' is an ADVERB here, just as it likes to be. In my usage, "well" can be both an adverb and an adjective. In "I can read well", for example, it's an adverb. As an adjective it means (usually)

Anon: Here is the main clause in your sentence: The Statue of Liberty may well be the best-known structure in the world. Statue of Liberty (proper noun) is the subject may be is the verb phrase. "be" is a linking verb (intransitive).

Clay will have been at the ball park until now. The distinction between by and untiil is a completely different question not related, except tangentially, to the distinction between statements with and without the will of probability. Try not to

Thanks for pointing that out. In fact, there are some other grammatical errors more noticeable than the use of comma. I do make a lot of grammatical errors in casual writing, like when discussing in forums. Regarding the rule that a comma is

<<rude remark deleted>>He means that the americans who graduated in the 60's were brain washed, while the the drop outs and half baked individuals fulfilled their true potential. How do you form this conclusion? Their

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/9347623.htm Using the comma correctly is often a matter of tempo Not long ago I ended one of my scholarly dissertations with an admonitory word: "Let us think upon these things, and go in

Hi. I would like to refer to a solution that ... the hyphen, as in "PC-based solution" or "PC based ..". Yes, but you should also understand *why* the hyphen is appropriate there. Hint: "When two or more words are combined