I want to try to find out why the diagrammer can't diagram them, and I found this website and I want to ask folks here for any ideas you may have as to why this sentence that seems correct comes up as not being a complete sentence according to the sentence diagrammer. You can also use their app or website iOS.

Sometimes I've been able to figure out why a sentence that I think is supposed to be correct is not (about 20-40 percent of the time), but not always, and the examples I wrote here are straight from the book. There are many free sites out there that can show you how to diagram sentences (some work better on a PC. The website won't recognize sentences with adjective clauses that begin with the relative pronoun 'who' though, nor their reduced forms.įor example, the website cannot recognize the sentence 'The Smiths, who live in the southernmost suburb, must drive more than an hour to get to work,' nor the sentence 'The Smiths, living in the southernmost suburb, take more than an hour to get to work.' I am helping a student study for the TOEFL exam and I used the website to diagram sentences for me to check that they are correct.

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