Diagramming Sentences

A noun clause can serve as a predicate nominative, as in this sentence:

The fact is you are not ready.

Note that the phrase you are not ready renames the fact.

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Diagramming Sentences

Eve, my cat, ate her food. The term apposition means "next to." In a sentence, an appositive is a word or phrase that follows and renames another word. In the sentence above, my cat is the appositive for Eve.

In a sentence diagram, the appositive sits next to the word it re-names in parentheses.

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