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Tree diagrams
or
phrase markers
Before you start diagraming a sentence it's recommended (not to say necessary) to analyze it using a syntactic viewpoint, which is simply to identify the different phrases and/or clauses found in any given sentence and how they can be represented. This is an important aspect of Parsing that is another way to call this kind of analysis.
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Taking into account the different types of phrases (noun, verb, prepositional, adjectival, adverbial), look at these sentences, perform a syntactic analysis and diagram them.
- The students in class are not paying attention.
- A new has come to class with harder activities.
- We could've decided faster.
- My brand new tv was really expensive in this store.