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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Let's diagram this sentence together!

Let's diagram a Frederick Douglass quotation together. "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. = complex sentence 

you will be forever free = independent clause

you = subject

will be = verb phrase

will = helping verb 

be = main verb, intransitive linking

free = predicate adjective

forever = adverb

Once you learn to read = adverb clause 

Once = subordinating conjunction

you = subject

learn = verb, transitive active

to read = direct object, infinitive

Frederick Douglass Sentence Diagram
Frederick Douglass

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If you've already learned a bit about diagramming, you might be feeling bold enough to try diagramming sentences yourself. Here are two more quotations from Frederick Douglass. Try diagramming them before you peek at the answers below, and if you'd like to see more sentences like this in your inbox, check out our Sentence A Day email series. Have fun! 

1. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. (HINT: Unfit is an objective complement.)

2. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. (HINTS: It is an expletive. Than to repair broken men is adverbial elliptical clause.)

Answers 

 1. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass sentence diagram

2. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass Sentence Diagram

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