English help! Diagram these 3 sentences and then answer: What verb tense? voice?

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English help! Diagram these 3 sentences and then answer: What verb tense? voice? and what (if any) are helping & modal verbs in the sentence?

1. He was just 19 years old when he was captured and spent 5 and ½ years as a prisoner (2000 days).

2. North Carolina named the bridge on the 441 by-pass near his home in the mountains in his honor.

3. I have read his book, “To Hell and Beyond: The First Enlisted Man's Version of What Happened as a Prisoner of War in Vietnam” cover to cover and was amazed by this bravery.

Explanation / Answer

1) verb tense -simple past ( independent clause ) and simple past (dependent clause)

Helping verb was was none

Main verb captured spent

2) verb tense -simple past , active voice

Helping verb none

Main verb named

3) verb tense present perfect , dependent clause (some past) independent clause (present perfect)

Helping verb have , was , was for both

Main verb read , amazed

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