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How to Diagram a Sentence

By Grace Fleming, About.com

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Indirect Object and Understood You

Give the man your money.

This sentence contains a direct object (money) and an indirect object (man). When diagramming a sentence with an indirect object, place the word on a line parallel to the base.

Notice that the subject of this imperative sentence is an understood You.

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