DebBG Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Hi Diagramers, My sons and I are are trying to diagram the Serenity Prayer and are having difficult! Can you help? :) God grant me the serenity to accept the thing I cannot change, the courage to change the thing I can and the wisdom to know the difference. N: God | Grant | Serenity | to accept | change ?? Courage to change | ?? Wisdom to know ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 (edited) Well, this is going to be tough to do because of the formatting on here. I will make my best guess. There are much better grammarians on here than I am. I would think you have three DOs here: serenity, courage, and wisdom. Me is going to be an IO hanging under the verb. I would think that if you diagram "to accept" as an infinitive, the entire phrase "the thing I cannot change" will be diagrammed on a tree as the object of "to accept". On that tree, "I" will be the subject, cannot change will be the verb, and thing will be the direct object. For the object of the infinitive "to change", another tree, "I" the subject, "can (change)" the verb, and "thing" the direct object. The second change is omitted but understood. "To know" has a simple object of "difference" with "the" as a modifier. Edited August 2, 2019 by cintinative 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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domesticidyll Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 This is my take -- I don't seem to be able to get the image upright. Heather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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