kitteninapocket
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I've been working on diagramming this sentence: "It wasn't a safe place because the sound of the river masked any other but he thought it would cheer the boy up." The first entire half of the sentence, I think I got that down pretty well, but when it starts "he thought it would cheer the boy up" is when I start having trouble. I feel like there are just too many words! I don't know what to do with "it" coming between "thought would cheer". The splitting of the phrase "cheer up" isn't too big of a deal, I just smushed those back together. But what about the rest?
I attached what I ended up doing, which was putting it on a pedestal in the DO position as a participle but I have no idea if that is even remotely right.
Any ideas?
I attached what I ended up doing, which was putting it on a pedestal in the DO position as a participle but I have no idea if that is even remotely right.
Any ideas?