Michael,

Reed & Kellogg may turn over in their grave.  But everyone seems to want to improve on them.  The grammar in almost every example has one or more clear errors in the analysis.  For example:

Vonnegut: All modifies this and more and less should be on two lines joined vertically by the conjunction or.
Wells: upon need not be supplied to make it a prepositional object (which R&K never recognized); direct object is fine for them.
Cevantes: in a place… belongs to lived; not belongs off of long which belongs off of ago.
Steinbek: both instances of country share Oklahoma; the brace can be brought together to provide a common horizontal.
Marquez: when introduces an adverbial of time used as an adjective modifier to the noun afternoon.
Plath: when is omitted similar to Marquez; the word not is left off the diagram; the dots go to the wrong base line.
Bradbury: to burn is an infinitive and should be on a stilt in apposition to the pronoun subject it.
Austen: which is incorrectly supplied to make an adjective clause; the clause is a substantive clause in apposition to it. (apposition is adjectival)
Chandler: with is preposition with two objects: 1) the gerund shining, (put on stilt with not modifying) and 2) look, modified by in clearness …
Thompson: on edge … modifies were; parallel to the other adverbial.
etc.  

I have put a version of Reed & Kellogg with all their sentences diagrammed on my website, if you are interested in this approach (bdespain.org).  Many of the sentences are presented as exercises, but there is also a PDF file of the key to these exercises.  

Bruce


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From: Michael Kischner <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Diagramming in the business world
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:52:29 -0800

Somebody in the world of business just sent me the following:

http://www.businessinsider.com/famous-novels-opening-lines-2014-2

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