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Graphing sentences? What's that? Something like underlining usbject, object and verb?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 08:12:05 PM EST
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Maybe Upstate's referring to diagramming sentences? I don't really remember exactly how to do it, but I recall vividly that it was my favorite thing in elementary school. I'm sorry to hear it's fallen out of fashion.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 08:41:19 PM EST
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Re: That doesn't explain (none / 0)

Thanks for the link. Upstate is at least right in my case, such diagrammatic grammar education is new to me. (Thus I can't say anything about its positiveness or negativeness.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Dec 10th, 2006 at 03:02:26 AM EST
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Re: That doesn't explain (none / 1)

Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about. My God, I spent thousands of hours of my life doing that. 4 straight years of English instruction doing that, plus more homework.

Can I have those hours back?

by Upstate NY on Sun Dec 10th, 2006 at 04:58:57 PM EST
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Re: That doesn't explain (none / 0)

Pretty much, though you can also do it with a tree diagram, etc.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 09:30:11 PM EST
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Re: That doesn't explain (none / 0)

Check this out:

http://www.polysyllabic.com/images/hoenshel286.jpg

http://userpages.burgoyne.com/bdespain/grammar/gif/rk7803.gif

by Upstate NY on Sun Dec 10th, 2006 at 05:04:07 PM EST
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