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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 blank 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."
Use the blank below to diagram this sentence. Once you have completed the diagram, you may check your work using the answer link below.
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 the correct answer. Click here for a sample student response.
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