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Linguistics tree diagrams

Can some1 plz help me construct a tree diagram 4 these two sentences:

1 a ((Sandra hit the teacher with an orange) (on his head))

1 b ((Sandra hit the teacher with) (an orange on his head))

Thank u & much appreciated :smile:

Reply 1

etudiant

Basically just work from the bottom up. In the first one, identify the parts of the sentence:
Sandra - noun
hit - verb
the - determiner
teacher - noun
with - prep.
an - determiner
orange - noun
on - prep
his - determiner
head - noun

Then the groups:
Sandra - Group Noun
hit - Group verb
with an orange - group prepositional

The group prepositional then goes into the group verb, and then this joins with the Group noun to form the sentence - geddit?