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Unfortunately the diagramming construction is incorrect –
even scarier than a visit from grammar ghost. The last part of speech is a
predicate adjective, so the line should point back to the “being” verb like
this:
You (Mr. Scrooge) | have been \ bad\ very
LOL. A Christmas nightmare. I never had to do diagramming in school. But in one teaching post, I had to teach how to do them! That was a nightmare. (I would not have given myself a good grade.)
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