Sentence Diagramming

Question

The owners painted the doghouse orange, and the dog reluctantly slept there.

line 1: Identify all the grammatical parts of a given sentence.

line 2: Identify the functions

line 3: identify the type of lexical verbs

line 4: Identify tense and aspect of all VPs

line 5: Sentence mood

line 6: Does the sentence contain coordination or subordination?

line 7: If subordination, what function does the subordinate clause have?

Answer 1

1 Most words are easy: 'the' is an article--3 times; nouns are the words right after 'the' every time.

2 The first noun, 'owners, 'is the subject of the sentence; the second noun, 'doghouse,' is a direct object; the third noun, 'dog,' is the subject of the second clause in the sentence .

3 'orange' is an adjective, but has the special label of 'objective complement,' since it modifies the direct object 'doghouse.'

4 There are 2 verbs: 'painted' and 'slept'. Both are active verbs; the first one is active transitive; the second one is active intransitive.

5 There are 2 adverbs: 'reluctantly' modifies 'slept;' and 'there' tells position

6 'And' is a conjunction, joining the 2 independent clauses