Reed-Kellogging Interrogative Pronoun

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"What" does he know that I do not know?"

Would I R-K it thusly:


(1) The first line: He does know what.

(2) Second line: I do not know that.

(a) Attach "That" with a dotted line to "what."


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Parser,

Sorry. I tried to post the diagram, but I am getting rusty. It sounds to me, though, as if you understand how to do it.

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Thanks a million for the confirmation.

If learners only realized what they are missing in not using Reed-Kellogg.

Forcing oneself to map a sentence is the exact kind of discipline that everyone

-- including native speakers -- needs.

I think that one person was quoted as saying something like: Don't write it if you

cannot diagram it.
 
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