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The Sylvia P. Mayhew Advanced Program for Sentence Diagramming Carmine-Casey School for Girls, Department of English New York, NY
Below you will find a completed sentence diagram for the first sentence of the second chapter of Joshua Gaylord's novel Hummingbirds (HarperCollins, 2009):
"The girls move up the stairs in anxious and gaudy pageants, each one of them a carnival pier at midnight, brightly lit, intricately mechanistic with an electrical heartbeat that turns the dark air around them a color of white that is like the negative of dark—but not light, not quite light, never just light."
N.B.: The Mayhew Program at Carmine-Casey adheres strictly to the Reed-Kellogg System of sentence diagramming in preference to the system developed by Isherwood and Browning or the more recent (and somewhat radical) X-bar theory, which encourages the vulgarization of the language.
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Click here for a sample student response. Click here for the blank form.
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