I finished reading Conclusion of Part 1 for 8 minutes before starting the practice sentences. It took me 23 minutes to write this post.
Conclusion of Part 1
Practicing will let you test whether you understood the steps correctly (can you actually do them?).
I think I have a good approximation of all the steps. I wanna see if I can practice them.
A good place to get sentences to practice on is a young adult novel. Books aimed at young people use simpler writing.
That sounds good I wanna try that sometime.
Practicing the steps will make them fast and intuitive.
I think I see what this means more now. Like, I don’t have to take so long find the main verb of the sentence. I think I get the intuitive part, like I won’t have to think so much about what step is next in the analysis.
That means your attention will be free to focus on the topic instead of the grammar.
It took me a few times reading this to get it. I couldn’t connect exactly that being good at grammar means more time focusing on the writing like the topic or points.
You can also use analysis to explain sentences better when someone else is confused or when there’s a disagreement about what a sentence means.
That’s like doing math work and showing your work. Sometimes showing your work to someone helps them see how you got to your answer.
For each sentence you practice, follow the steps. Find the action or linking verb, then the subject, then the object or complement. Then find the modifiers and figure out what each one modifies. For prepositions, find their noun and figure out what the whole prepositional phrase modifies. Finally, after you understand the individual parts of the sentence, consider what the whole thing means.
Ok, first find the action or linking verb, then find the subject, then find the object or complement, and find the modifiers and what they modify.
For prepositional phrases find the preposition, then its noun, and then say what the prepositional phrase is modifying.
After all those steps make conclusions about what the sentence is about.
John is wise.
Linking verb: is
Subject: John
Complement: wise
Conclusions: I don’t know how to conclude this exactly. I think John is being linked to being wise.
John quickly drank milk.
Action verb: drank
Subject: John
Object: milk
adverb: quickly, it modifies drank
Conclusions: John drank milk. He drank quickly.
John likes big, fast cars.
Action verb: likes
Subject: John
Object: cars
“Big” modifies “cars”.
“Fast” modifies “cars”.
Conclusions: John likes cars that are big and fast.