“bad” is NOT a direct object as is indicated by vertical line separating it from the verb “have been”.
“bad”, in this case, is a predicate adjective and should be separated by a line that slants to the left pointing toward the subject “You” with its appositive “Mr. Scrooge”.
ricg over 7 years ago
do young people even know what these are? did a lot of these at school, in the dinosaur days.
Dani Rice over 7 years ago
Diagramming sentences was one thing I never understood. I’d just draw lines and put things anyplace. Sometimes, I even got it right.
rcjkirk over 7 years ago
I haven’t seen this since grammar school in the late ’50s. I thought that it had just “gone away”!
sandflea over 7 years ago
His cousins are dangling participle and hanging chad.
Coyoty Premium Member over 7 years ago
The next ghost will make the Present tense.
Douglas Fox Premium Member over 7 years ago
MINUS 10 POINTS!
ERROR.
“bad” is NOT a direct object as is indicated by vertical line separating it from the verb “have been”.
“bad”, in this case, is a predicate adjective and should be separated by a line that slants to the left pointing toward the subject “You” with its appositive “Mr. Scrooge”.