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Classify the whole sentence using the question and answer flow:
Two skillful little birds built a splendid nest in the branches of our tree.
What is
What built a splendid nest in the branches of our tree? - Birds SN
What is being said about birds? - Birds built - verb
Birds built what? - Nest - Verify the noun
Does nest mean the same thing as birds? - No
Nest - DO
Built - V-t
What kind of nest? Splendid - Adj
A- A
In - P
In what? - Branches - OP
The - A
Of - P
Of what? - Tree - OP
Whose tree? - Our - PPA
What kind of birds? Little - Adj
What kind of birds? Skillful - Adj
How many birds? - Two - Adj
SN V-t DO P2
Skill check
Verb transitive - check again
(In the branches) - Prepositional phrase
(Of our tree) - Prepositional phrase
Period, statement, declarative sentence.
Go back to the verb. Divide the complete subject from the complete predicate.
Is this sentence in a natural or inverted order? - Natural, no change.