Diagramming Sentences

[rabidsamfan]

There's a neat article here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/a-picture-of-language/ about diagramming sentences.

I wasn't taught grammar for the first 8 years of school beyond "verb" "noun" "adjective" "adverb" level. I learned what I knew in Spanish classes (and later Latin.) Then we moved to Omaha and in 9th grade I was suddenly in a class full of people who had been diagramming sentences since the third grade. I thought it fun, but I never really learned the nuances. I still am unclear on gerunds and participles. But it never occurred to me to apply the diagrams to learning other languages.

Interesting...

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[capt-facepalm.livejournal.com]

...not surprising...
:-P