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Diagramming sentences

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Posted by GlenEllyn at 11:01 pm (PDT) on Mon August 27, 2018
Diagramming sentences is one thing I never had to learn in school. I think my sister had to do it, but being two years younger, by the time I got to that class they had discontinued it. Yippee!
Posted by Bob Matthews at 2:45 am (PDT) on Thu August 23, 2018
I never understood the need to do this and resisted learning it. A sentence either made sense or it didn't. All this diagramming was pointless. I comprehended things pretty well without it.
Posted by CJ at 7:33 pm (PDT) on Fri April 1, 2016
Watts wrong with Duff's post? Eye don't sea it?
Posted by IOfferMyBentNickel at 5:07 pm (PDT) on Fri April 1, 2016
Hey, not to steal any thunder from Mr. Duff, but, we are ALL "old school" here so I caught his hilarious homonym two. Well done!
Posted by CJ at 2:36 pm (PST) on Sun December 20, 2015
OMG, Duff! The last sentence in post was/is great! Almost fell out of chair. I wonder how many caught that little gem of yours.
Posted by Alan at 12:29 pm (PDT) on Sun March 18, 2012
I taught English in high school for thirty years, and I never once had my students diagram sentences!
Posted by dtdavis2012 at 5:54 am (PDT) on Sun March 18, 2012
If it wasn't a "simple" sentence, then diagramming them was a lost cause to me. I wrote a report complaining about the fact I'd never diagram another sentence after I graduated from high school--and I haven't in almost 40 years.
Posted by Duff at 3:02 am (PDT) on Wed October 14, 2009
Judging from some of the correspondence I receive, today's students hardly learn to spell, let alone understand proper grammatical form. Yes, your word processor's spell checker may catch many of your typos, but it will often let a homonym slip by undetected. So their!

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