Diagramming questions by identifying sentence patterns, and recognizing ‘there’, and It-Cleft.

Analyzing and Diagramming Questions, There, It-Cleft

Questions:

Q.1. Which assignment should be done first?

Q.2. Shall we take the neighbor children with us?

Q.3. Is there nothing left of that huge pizza?

Q.4. Who created that computer virus?

Q.5. Should all of us be there at the same time?

Q.6. There’s one now.

Q.7.  Where have you been hiding?

Q.8. The ambulance was there within five minutes.

Q.9.. There were several players seriously injured in Friday’s game.

        Using the It-Cleft

Q.10. Hasn’t there been a lot of rain this summer? 

Q.11. Negative political ads turned off a great many voters in the last election. [Emphasize the subject.]

Q.12. Sir Humphrey Davy invented the carbon arc lamp seventy years before Edison’s first light bulb. [Write two versions: emphasize the subject and emphasize the time.]

Q.13. [2nd version]

Q.14. Several small boats capsized off Point Loma during a storm last week. [Write two versions: Emphasize the where adverbial; emphasize the when adverbial.]

Q.15. [2nd version]