Grammar tree practice [AM]

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Exercise sentences in this post:

  • I planted it in my backyard
  • Mom said that it will be fun to watch it get bigger
  • When it is bigger, birds will build nests and live in it
  • When it is bigger, squirrels will build nests and live in it, too
  • I am glad that I planted a tree
  • There was once an Ant who was very thirsty, and she went down to the brook to drink, but the current carried her away down the stream

First attempt

I planted it in my backyard

  • planted
    • I
    • it
    • in
      • backyard
        • my

< 1 min

Mom said that it will be fun to watch it get bigger

Rewriting trick:

It will be fun to watch it get bigger; mom said that.

Here “that” refers to the first clause. “That” was originally also doing the job of the “;”, joining the two clauses.

The second “it” refers to the tree that was planted. The first “it” is more interesting. What is is “it”? I think it’s just talking about the experience of watching the tree get bigger.

If “fun” a noun or an adjective? It says something will be fun, “be” is a linking verb, so it’s an adjective.

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32 min

When it is bigger, birds will build nests and live in it

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With implied words:

When it is bigger, birds will build nests and they will live in it.

9 min

I noticed the issue where it seemed like “and” was joining two groups that weren’t the same part of speech, so I added the implied words to make them the same. In Fire’s case one is a noun infinitive with an object and the other is a noun infinitive modified by a prepositional phrase. I think both are noun infinitive phrases.

My tree works but it has unnecessary implied words. Fire’s is also better in that the structure is better.

When it is bigger, squirrels will build nests and live in it, too

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1 min 30 sec

Fire has “too” modifying “live”. I think “too” at least also applies to building the nests. I don’t think it should modify “when” and subsume the whole sentence. I think the additional information is that squirrels will also build and live.

I am glad that I planted a tree

  • that
    • am
      • I
      • glad
    • planted
      • I
      • tree
        • a

< 1 min

There was once an Ant who was very thirsty, and she went down to the brook to drink, but the current carried her away down the stream

I got started on diagramming each clause. The first one is probably wrong. There’s probably some literary use of “there was” that is not grammatically correct, I only got to research it some.

  • was

    • Ant
      • an
      • who
        • was
          • thirsty
            • very

  • went

    • she
    • to drink
    • down
    • to
      • brook
        • the

  • carried

    • current
      • the
    • her
    • away
    • down
      • stream
        • the

20 min

Project Notes

Time table:

Total time 2:51
grammar tree practice 2:51
\_ meta 0:09
\_ grammar tree exercise collections 2:42
\\_ first attempt at exercises 1:43
\\_ error correction 0:59