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Hello, darkness, my old friend...

Today, we're diagramming a sentence from a Simon and Garfunkel song. 

Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again

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Hello, darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again = simple sentence, statement

Hello = interjection

darkness = noun of direct address

my old friend = appositive phrase

friend = appositive to darkness

my, old = adjectives modifying friend

I = subject, pronoun 

have/'ve come = verb phrase 

've/have = helping verb

come = main verb (intransitive complete) 

again = adverb modifying talk

with you = prepositional phrase, adverb modifying talk

with = preposition

you = object of the preposition

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Join our FREE email series, Diagrammed Simon & Garfunkel Song Lyrics. 

You'll receive ten daily emails with sentence diagramming puzzles. 

Ten daily emails

Each email includes clues and grammar tips to help you create a sentence diagram from a Simon and Garfunkel song lyric.

Each email includes the answer.

Some sentences will be fairly easy to diagram and some will be more advanced.

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