Re: Over-The-Rhine Digest V2 #804

[chris.emery at ecoutlook_com (Chris Emery)]

Dancing on a volcano, DustyVolume <marquis at icx_net> said:

>> Whoa.   20 Bonus Emery Points for diagramming that sentence.
>
> I won't even start to critique it, I'll just diagram it...

You're far too kind.

>> Everyone's looking for *a* truth - the truth that is true for them.
>> 
>Well, what you have is a main clause and a suporting statement held
>together with a hyphen.

Man, in retrospect it looks a little more grammatically correct than
it did before.

> "Everyone" is definitley the subject, "looking" is the verb, "for" is
>the preposition, "a," of course is an article, "truth" is the direct
>object,  "is" is the auxillary verb, and, "them" is a pronoun that
>refers back to its subject and antecedent, "Everyone." 

No Emery Bonus Points for you, Markus.  It doesn't count unless you do
a *diagram* - pick a fixed pitch font and GO TO IT.



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