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"Everyone paranoid that people will be making judgments about them" How to understand "Everyone paranoid that people will be making judgments about them". I'm not clearly understand above sentence. What is subject? and predicate? and object? Could someone help to analyze the sentence? Thanks

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Hello Bean, I am guessing this is a fragment taken from a larger sentence because it seems incomplete. it So the subject here will be "Everyone", here, however, we are missing a verb after 'everyone', for example "Everyone is paranoid..." . The predicate will be everything after the subject, so assuming we add the missing verb the predicate will be "is paranoid that people..." here there is not object, there is an adjective which is the word "Paranoid". The word paranoid could also mean "scared" to make it easier to understand, and it is describing the subject "everyone". So everyone (subject) is (verb) paranoid (adjective). The second part of the sentence starts with "That", that makes it a "that-clause". As you can see the second part is an explanation to the first part, so why are they paranoid? or why will they be paranoid? BECAUSE people will or may be making judgements about them. So the "that-clause" provides an explanation to the matrix clause (or main clause which is "Everyone paranoid that"). Please let me know if that helped and if you need further explanation.
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Paranoid means a person who is very nervous/anxious or it can be a serious mental disorder The author is saying that if Everyone is nervous that they think other people are going to judge them. Judge means to form an opinion/conclusion over someone.
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I tried to make a sentence diagramming . I think the sentence is incomplete. It's "Everyone is paranoid" .I'm not really sure.hihi

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