Diagramming Sentences
Sentence Diagrams
~ One Way of Learning English Grammar ~
The Basics of Sentence Diagramming
~ Sentences 56-60 ~
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Sentence 56: They wonder whether they should spend so much money for a car. |
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| That is not the only expletive that can introduce a noun clause; whether, whether or not, and if (in the sense of whether or not) can do so as well. | ||
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Sentence 57: He asked why they had waited for him. |
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Sentence 58: Your occupational success depends on how hard you work in school. |
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| A noun clause can function also as the object of a preposition. Here the noun clause is introduced by the interrogative adverb how. | ||
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Sentence 59: I forgot to tell you whom I saw last summer. |
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In this sentence, an infinitive phrase has as its direct object a noun clause introduced by the interrogative pronoun whom. Yes, whom, not who; it's a direct object, not a subject. |
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Sentence 60: They are confident they will succeed. |
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| The noun clause they will succeed is an adverbial objective, i.e., a noun used adverbially. The missing that is replaced in the diagram by an x. | ||
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