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Sentence Diagramming 3: Prepositional Phrases Again. Grammar

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Yossarian the Grammarian shows that prepositional phrases can contain other prepositional phrases. English grammar

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  • How does one diagram a sentence that has been altered to avoid stranding a preposition?

    For example: The name by which he is known is Sandor.

    Where would one put  "he is known"?

    Thanks for all of your videos. Welcome back!

  • @scubes10 You diagram "by which he is known" as a relative clause ("which" is the relative pronoun). So you draw a baseline under "name," put "he is known" on the baseline, with the adverbial prepositional phrase "by which" descending from "known." Then you draw a dotted line from "which" to "name". I'll have to do a video on that !

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  • hey thanks a lot now i'll pass my english midterm

  • wow.. I have this stuff on my exam... its ridiculous.. I go to a private school.. and we have to learn this.. again.. haha

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  • Thank you. I've fallen behind in my grammar class, but this is helping me understand things!

  • @mrthoth Thanks so much! I was losing my mind thinking that "which" was functioning purely as the object of "by," and I couldn't figure out where my "he is known" baseline connected.

  • Thank You!!!

    

  • thanks man,you helped me finish my homework.

  • Is there a way to know absolutely where to attach a prepositional phrase when diagramming?? This helped but I was thinking that for five years could possibly be attached to Sandor?? Should the sentence be diagrammed in the order it is written?? HELP

  • ..as in learning what all the pieces are lol.

  • It is not in "learning diagramming" as such, but in diagramming learning. It's really helping me piece sentences together.

  • These vids are great and help me a lot with my school work but i think learning to diagram sentences is so stupid and unnecessary. I don't understand why my SAT prep. teacher would even teach this.

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