Diagramming Sentences
Sentence Diagrams
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Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Diagramming SentencesSentence Diagrams ~ One Way of Learning English Grammar ~ Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
| Sentence 7: "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract." |
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| Comments: Yes, adverbs can modify prepositions; in this sentence, the adverb far modifies the preposition above. The infinitive phrase to add or detract is adjectival. Who is a relative pronoun; its antecedent is men. |
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