Can you help me to analyze the sentences?

Question

I need to analyse sentence (subject, predicate, object, attribute)

1. What I am not quite sure about is how you are yo get across.

2. My dear boy, the difference between you and me is that your give too easily.

Answer 1

I think I can help you a little, but I have a couple of questions:

• What do you mean by "attribute"? I know the term attributive from traditional grammar which refers to the modification of a noun by an adjective within a noun phrase (e.g., the red ball), as opposed to predicative which is where an adjective occurs in a predicate containing a copular verb and is thus meant to modify the head noun in the noun phrase that's the subject of the copula (e.g., The ball is red). If you're using "attribute" to mean something like this, then the only example of an attributive adjective I see in your sentences is dear in the noun phrase my dear boy in sentence 2.
• I don't know exactly how to interpret "how you are yo get across" in your sentence 1.
• Similarly, "your give too easily" is not grammatical;maybe you meant to write something like "you give in too easily," but I can't be sure.

I'm also going to operate on the assumption that by "predicate" you mean the entire verb phrase, i.e., the verb and all its complements (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTEVTPBg2Yg), though I've seen analyses that use this term to refer to everything in the verb phrase except for the verb itself.

 

All of this said, here is my--partial--analysis for you:

 

sentence 1.:

 

subject: What I am not quite sure about

predicate: is how you are yo get across [sic]

 

object: The sentence contains no direct nor indirect objects, but arguably what is the object of the preposition about at least in "deep structure."

 

sentence 2.:

 

subject: the difference between you and me

predicate: is that your give too easily [sic]

object: Like sentence 1., there are no direct nor indirect objects, only the compound noun phrase you and me serving as the object of the preposition between.

(My dear boy would be analyzed as something like a vocative, i.e., part of a speech act--the use of language in a real-world, pragmatic context--rather than as part of the central proposition expressed by the main sentence itself.)

 

I've not gone further and detailed the subjects/predicates/objects in the two noun clauses in sentence 1. and the single one in sentence 2., just the structures of the main or containing clauses in each.