Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Let's diagram this sentence together!

Let's diagram a Frederick Douglass quotation together. "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. = complex sentence 

If you've already learned a bit about diagramming, you might be feeling bold enough to try diagramming sentences yourself. Here are two more quotations from Frederick Douglass. Try diagramming them before you peek at the answers below, and if you'd like to see more sentences like this in your inbox, check out our Sentence A Day email series. Have fun! 

1. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. (HINT: Unfit is an objective complement.)

2. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. (HINTS: It is an expletive. Than to repair broken men is adverbial elliptical clause.)

 1. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

2. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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