1. Put parentheses ( ) around each prepositional phrase. 2. Underline subjects once, finite verbs twice, and label complements ("PN," "PA," "IO," "DO"). 3. Place brackets around each subordinate clause. If the clause functions as a noun, label its function ( "Subj.," "IO," "DO," "OP") above the opening bracket. If it functions as an adjective or adverb, draw an arrow from the opening bracket to the word that the clause modifies. 4. Put a vertical line at the end of every main clause. 1. Listen to what is to follow. 2. My petition is, that a morsel of stone or wood, with my husband's name, may be placed over him. 3. What I must bid you to do for Charles's sake, is the hardest thing to do of all. 4. The story of his pure soul was exactly what Mr. Attorney-General had described it to be. 5. "You have no business to be incorrigible," was his friend's answer. 6. Besides that I should know it to be hopeless, I should know it to be a baseness. 7. It is what I meant to say. 8. "What we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miserable race die out!" 9. The prisoner's counsel was cross-examining this witness with no result, except that he had never seen the prisoner on any other occasion. 10. What those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose. |
