[jcline]

How do you diagram this sentence:

Government by the people is foundation of democracy.

[Wondergirl]

I can't do the visual here. How about if I give you parts of speech?

Government = subject
by the people = prepositional phrase (do you know how to diagram that off the subject?)

is = verb

foundation = predicate nominative, i.e. predicate noun
of democracy = prepositional phrase off "foundation"

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Check this for the visuals of diagramming --

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