LESSON 25.

ANALYSIS AND PARSING.

ONE MODIFIER JOINED TO ANOTHER.

Analyze and diagram the following sentences, and parse the nouns, pronouns,
adjectives, and verbs.

+Model+.--_The frightened animal fled still more rapidly_.

animal | fled
===================|=====================
\The \frightened | \rapidly
\more
\still

+Explanation of the Diagram+.--Notice that the three lines forming this
group all slant the same way to show that each stands for a modifying word.
The line standing for the principal word of the group is joined to the
predicate line. The end of each of the other two lines is broken, and
turned to touch its principal at an angle.

+Oral Analysis+.--This is a sentence, because----; _animal_ is the subject,
because----; _fled_ is the predicate, because----; _The_ and _frightened_
are modifiers of the subject, because----; _still more rapidly_ is a
modifier of the predicate, because it is a group of words joined to it to
limit its meaning; _rapidly_ is the principal word of the group; _more_