http://flesl.net/Grammar/about_complex_sentences.pdf Copy and past the above. Your teacher may have developed a useful system of analyzing sentences. I am not willing to give an opinion of this system; I have not had it explained to me in an in-depth way. But I am putting the information above in case someone else wants to look it over and give an opinion. It may also help you review the things he explained to you.

There is a big difference between an object and an adverb. An object receives the action. An adverb describes how the action is done. A lot of adverbs end in -ly. For example: Tom eats pizza quickly. Pizza = object; quickly = adverb