The third step of a sentence flow is to put the supporting words and phrases under the words which they modify.

Displaying Modifiers

Now that you have displayed the skeleton of the sentence, it is now time to display the modifiers under the term which they modify. There are three types of modifiers will deal with at first: adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. If you need review of these parts of speech, please check out the Grammar Review.

Adverbs:
Adverbs are displayed underneath the verb which they modify (slightly indented for clarity).
The best way to determine which verb an adverb describes is to ask if it answers the question How, in what way, does the subject do the action of the verb? If the adverb answers that question about a particular verb, then it should be displayed under that verb.

For Example:
...you know it completely. - Ezek. 22:26
completely answers the question How does he know it? i.e. know completely

Therefore, these words would be displayed like this:

know
    completely

A few special cases to watch out for with adverbs:

• The negatives not, never, etc. are some of the most common adverbs.


Example
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...he must not give... - Deut. 25:3
would be displayed as:

must give
    not


• The majority of other adverbs end in -ly.

Example
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...you are really my disciples... - John 8:31
would be displayed as:

are
    really


• Another common category of adverbs is time references like always, still, etc.

Example
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...I have already obtained... - Phil. 3:12
would be displayed as:

have obtained
    already


• One verb may have more than one adverb.

Example
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...you will never again deprive... - Ezek. 36:12
would be displayed as:

deprive
    never
    again



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