Thanks so much to all of you who replied.  I have forwarded your
responses to the teacher who asked, and she is anxious to share them
with her students.
:) Dawn

Bruce Despain wrote:

>  Dawn, Here is how I would do it:  Distance in "some distance away"
> helps to tell us how far.  It is one of those adverbial nouns
> modifying "away."  Cf. "some miles away."  The adverb of place "away"
> is being used as a predicate adverb.  The word "distance" branches
> down from it and the word "some" branches off of "distance." Let me
> mention that when there is an adverb like "far" or "heavy" the adverb
> heading up the adverbial phrase, it is often omitted.  I would simply
> restore it in the diagram in parentheses.  Hence we would have "when
> we had traveled ten miles (far)" diagrammed in the same way!  This
> looks like a direct object of "travel," but it is seems better in my
> mind to make it parallel to the adverbial noun of the above sentence.
> Bruce
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 2/10/2004 7:23:45 AM >>>
> A teacher in my department came to me this morning for help
> diagramming this clause from a Fitzgerald sentence: when we were still
> some distance away.  What should she do with distance?
> Dawn
>
> Fay Sweney wrote:
>
>> Whoops! Looks like a draft email was accidentally sent. English
>> teachers in my school district are currently evaluating curriculum.
>> One step is to identify the complexity of what we expect kids to
>> learn.  We are in disagreement about this.  Using Bloom's taxonomy,
>> how would you classify the complexity of questions like those
>> below-- Comprehension? Application?  Analysis?  And why? 1.  Is the
>> underlined word in the following sentence a preposition?     The dog
>> ran across the street. 2.  Which of the following sentences contains
>> a prepositional phrase?     a.  The cowboys rode their horses.
>> b.  The cowboys gave the horses a drink.      c. The cowboys rode
>> their horses into the sunset. My book was found under a fluffy
>> pillow.3. The word pillow functions as      a. an adjective      b.
>> a noun      c. a p! reposition      d. a pronoun 4.  What is the
>> structure of this sentence?      a. simple       b. compound
>> c. complex Fay Sweney
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