NoPlaceLikeHome Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 She is going to go to the store. He ought to read this book. Bill has to do his homework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justasque Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 (edited) She is going to go to the store.He ought to read this book. Bill has to do his homework. Did you mean break them down, grammar-wise? You could plug them into this automatic sentence diagrammer. Here's my guess - (I'm not a grammar person) She (pronoun/subject) is going (verb, present progressive) to go (infinitive, not sure of part of speech) to the store. (prepositional phrase; to is the preposition, the store is the object of the preposition) Edited June 23, 2012 by askPauline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPlaceLikeHome Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Did you mean break them down, grammar-wise?You could plug them into this automatic sentence diagrammer. Here's my guess - (I'm not a grammar person) She (pronoun/subject) is going (verb, present progressive) to go (infinitive, not sure of part of speech) to the store. (prepositional phrase; to is the preposition, the store is the object of the preposition) Thanks:) I will try. Any other thoughts? What about this sentence: She used to go to the store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justasque Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Thanks:) I will try. Any other thoughts?What about this sentence: She used to go to the store. Same thing, different verb tense. She (pronoun, the subject of the sentence) used (past tense of the verb "to use"; this is the verb of the sentence) to go ("to go" is the infinitive form of the verb go; not sure what part of speech it is here) to the store ("to the store" is a prepositional phrase, "to" is the preposition, "the store" is the object of the preposition, "the" is an article, "store" is a noun"). Again, I'm not a grammar person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoPlaceLikeHome Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 The thing that is a little confusing is that apparently "used to go" or "going to go" and others are multi-word verbs with particles, I think. The diagram of these sentences I think place the multi-word phrase on the verb part of the diagram. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brenda in FL Posted June 24, 2012 Share Posted June 24, 2012 Used to, ought to, has to are all considered helping verbs and would be diagrammed on the verb line with the main verb. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm Not sure about the "is going to go". I'd say rewrite the sentence. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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