Diagramming a Sentence

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Darryus

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can you please diagram this sentence " Our live classes are always promotion free"?
 

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Shouldn't you try to do it first?
 

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can you please diagram this sentence " Our live classes are always promotion free"?

It may be easier to parse if you hyphenate ​promotion-free.
 

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Actually, I want to know what is the role of the word promotion and the role of the word free, is it as a noun or is it as an adjective?

Based on your answer @GoesStation, does it mean the word promotion and free definitely have one role that is an adjective?
 

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Actually, I want to know what is the role of the word promotion and the role of the word free, is it as a noun or is it as an adjective?

Based on your answer @GoesStation, does it mean the word promotion and free definitely have one role that is an adjective?

Yes, that's correct. "Promotion-free" is a compound adjective, a single word for categorisation purposes. "Free" in this case this has the sense of "not advertised". Syntactically, "promotion-free" is functioning as predicative complement of the subject "our live classes".

Other similar examples of compound adjectives are "tax-free", where the meaning of "free" is "not having to pay" and "cholesterol-free, where the meaning is "not containing".
 
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Thank you PaulMatthews.

I got it.
 
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