Herb:
(Slavishly) following Martha, I would call "away" a required adverb of time and place (ADV/TP) in her Pattern 1 sentence (NP be ADV/TP) and put it under the verb were in the diagram -- just as Martha diagrams "The students are upstairs" with "upstairs" under are. I'll leave it to advanced theorists to explain how this "be" differs from a linking "be."
Mike
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> Michael,
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> I'm getting back into RK diagrams in order to use them this summer with an undergrad class. Leaving the "when" out, since we don't have a main clause, I'd do the rest of the clause like this. Email doesn't let me underline or put words on a diagonal.
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> we | were \ away
> \ \
> still distance
> \
> some
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> "some distance away" is an adverb phrase serving as subject complement. "still" modifies "were", and I agree with you on "some" and "distance".
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> Herb
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> It seems to me that away modifies were; distance modifies away; and some modifies distance.
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> 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?
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> Dawn
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> Fay Sweney wrote:
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> 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 preposition d. a pronoun 4. What is the structure of this sentence? a. simple b. compound c. complex Fay Sweney
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