Frank Antonson1
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I made a video on Youtube of the diagram of this sentence and a little discussion about it. I posted the link here over a week ago, but since I have had to re-register, my posts don't seem to be getting onto the forum. I am trying again.
Ok. It seems to be working. Here is the link:
For UsingEnglish com 2 - YouTube
We'll see it I manage to get it on this time.
Thanks for watching my video. You might find those other links that I put in the description of interest -- especially the one about publications on R-K.
What you have said sounds okay to me, I just don't think it is "Reed-Kellogg". I have never heard of a "ditransitive" verb. Perhaps that is another way to deal with an objective complement. How would you diagram "The group elected me president."? That would be a classic example of an objective complement. By extension, "I was elected president". "I was chosen to be president". "Me" as an indirect object did not occur to me because it would be awkward to put "to" or "for" in front of it. If the sentence were "Tom told me that he is able to do it" or "I was told that he is able to", it would be a different case.
In any case, yes, I would put "that" on a shelf atop a dotted line coming up from the base line right after the subject-predicate divider in the noun clause.
I guess the issue is only what to call "that" and whether the noun clause is a direct object or an objective complement.
Again, thanks for watching my video. I am sorry that it took so long to get the word out.
Oops. I hope to catch something before somebody else does. I should have said SIMPLE predicates are always and only verbs. Complete predicates can contain all of the parts of speech. Also, a simple predicate can be compound, in which case, the conjunction making it compound could (and probably should) be considered part of the simple predicate.
Sorry about that.
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