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Diagram It! Puzzler Answers


Clues for the January 24th Puzzler:

Answers are at the bottom of the page.

Here are the clues for today's Puzzler.

Clues

1. Can you diagram this Joan Baez quote?

Action is the antidote to despair.

2. This sentence has an intransitive linking verb and a predicate noun.

3. This sentence has an adjectival prepositional phrase modifying the predicate noun.

4. The skeleton for your diagram will look like this:

sentence diagram

Do you know the answer? Can you diagram it?


Clues for the January 10th Puzzler:

Answers are at the bottom of the page.

Here are the clues for today's Puzzler.

Clues

1. This idiom is only three words long. We say it to people in the morning when we want them to wake up and start the day.

2. When a friend of mine was studying abroad in Latvia, his host mother would knock on his door every morning and say, "You stand up now." I guess that's the Latvian equivalent to this saying!

3. This saying is made up of two imperative sentences.

4. The skeleton for your diagram will look like this:

sentence diagram

Do you know the answer? Can you diagram it?


Clues for the December 27th Puzzler:

Answers are at the bottom of the page.

Here are the clues for today's Puzzler.

Clues

1. This idiom is used when a person is rushing into something. It means "hold on" or "wait."

2. It originated in the 19th century and has something to do with horses.

3. This is an imperative sentence.

4. The skeleton for your diagram will look like this:

sentence diagram

Do you know the answer? Can you diagram it?


Clues for the December 13th Puzzler:

Answers are at the bottom of the page.

Here are the clues for today's Puzzler.

Clues

1. Can you diagram the following sentence? It's the first line of the poem On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats.

The poetry of earth is never dead.

2. This sentence has a linking verb with a predicate adjective.

3. This sentence contains an adjectival prepositional phrase.

4. The skeleton for your diagram will look like this:
sentence diagram

Do you know the answer? Can you diagram it?


Answers!

Answer for the January 24th Puzzler:

sentence diagram


Answer for the January 10th Puzzler:

sentence diagram


Answer for the December 27th Puzzler:

sentence diagram


Answer for the December 13th Puzzler:

sentence diagram


Try more sentence diagramming with these exercises. The answers are included, so you can check your work!

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