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Help me Diagram this sentence!!!! URGENT!!
"Canoe, barbecue, and banana were some of the first words borrowed from Native Americans."
I know how to do the first part.
But how would I diagram from "were......Americans."?
Urgent! HELP!!!
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Re: Help me Diagram this sentence!!!! URGENT!!

Originally Posted by
alaricepent
"Canoe, barbecue, and banana were some of the first words borrowed from Native Americans."
I know how to do the first part.
But how would I diagram from "were......Americans."?
Urgent! HELP!!!

[Canoe, barbecue, and banana] the subject, noun phrase
[were] the verb, verb phrase
[some of the first words borrowed from Native Americans] the complement
borrowed : its deep structure is: which were borrowed
I am not a teacher
Last edited by sash2008; 04-May-2009 at 08:07.
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