analyzing a sentence

[dawolo]

How do I analyze this sentence? "I think bowing kind of scares foreigners."

[the creative]

first of all thank you for the post
but I'll trying to anlys this sentence as I know, please!!

I= subject/ think=verb 1 (simple past)/ bowing kind= object/ of= preposetion letter/

and next is complement............

p.s= the tense of this sentence is simple past.

___the___creative___

[TheParser]

Originally Posted by dawolo

How do I analyze this sentence? "I think bowing kind of scares foreigners."

(Not a teacher) May I suggest the following: (1) I = pronoun = subject; think = verb; (that = optional conjunction or expletive or subordinator); bowing (gerund used as noun); kind of = phrase that means "rather" = adverb that modifies "scares"; scares = verb; foreigners = noun = object.

[Frank Antonson]

If you want this sentence analyzed in terms of its syntax, then "bowing kind of scares foreigners" is a noun clause with a gerund as its subject (the word "that" is understood). "Foreigners" is the direct object within that noun clause.
"Kind of" I would treat as a phrasal adverb modifying "scares".
Frank, the Linguist Farmer

[Frank Antonson]

Oh, that noun clause is the direct object of "I think".
Linguist Farmer

[Kondorosi]

Originally Posted by Frank Antonson

"Kind of" I would treat as a phrasal adverb modifying "scares".

My sentiments exactly.