Short story sentences:
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She is young.
[is [She] [young]]
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Her shoes are old.
[are [shoes [Her]] [old]]
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She wears them to work.
[wears [She] [them] [to [work]]]
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She goes to work five days a week.
[goes [She] [to [work]] [days [five] [week [a]]]]
Notes/references:
• “a” looks like its synonymous to “per” in this sentence and appears to function as a preposition
• “to work” is a prepositional phrase
• “five” appears to be functioning as a determiner in this sentence, modifying “days”
• Says number words can be determiners.
May be relevant:
Appositives and Appositive Phrases—How to Use Them | Grammarly.
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She loves her work.
[loves [She] [work [her]]]
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She is a waitress.
[is [She] [waitress [a]]]
- She works at a restaurant.
[works [She] [at [restaurant [a]]]]
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The restaurant is near her home.
[is [restaurant [The]] [near [home [her]]]]
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She walks to the restaurant.
[walks [She] [to [restaurant [the]]]]
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She stands up all day long.
[stands [She] [up] [day [all] [long]]]
• “all day long” is an idiom, that appears to function primarily as a modifier
• “up” is an adverb that modifies “stands”
https://wordtype.org/of/all%20day
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She is young and strong.
[is [She] [and [young] [strong]]]
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But her shoes are not.
[But [“(previous sentence)”] [are [shoes [her]] [not]]]
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They are old.
[are [They] [old]]
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She saw an ad in the paper.
[saw [She] [ad [an]] [in [paper [the]]]]
- All shoes were on sale at the shoe store.
[were [shoes [All]] [on [sale]] [at [store [the] [shoe]]]]
- She walked into the store.
[walked [She] [into [store [the]]]]
- She looked around.
[looked [She] [around]]
• “around” is an adverb that modifies “looked”
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She saw some black shoes.
[saw [She] [shoes [some] [black]]]
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They looked good.
[looked [They] [good]]
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She tried them on.
[tried [She] [them] [on]]
• Based on the definitions that I found “on” has to be either a preposition or an adverb. “On” doesn’t look like a preposition here so it seems that it has to be an adverb. As an adverb, “on” cannot modify “them”, so it must be modifying “tried”.
- They were very comfortable.
[were [They] [comfortable [very]]]
• “comfortable” is the subject complement
• “very” is an adverb that modifies “comfortable”
- They felt good.
[felt [They] [good]]
- They were only $25.
[were [They] [$25 [only]]]
• “$25” is the subject complement
• “only” is an adverb that modifies “$25”
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She paid cash.
[paid [She] [cash]]
• “cash” is an adverb that modifies “paid”. It tells you’re the type of payment. -
She wore them home.
[wore [She] [them] [home]]
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She felt good.
[felt [She] [good]]
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She was ready for work the next day.
[was [She] [ready [for [work [day [next [the]]]]]]]
Notes/references:
Maybe “the next day” is technically short for “on the next day”