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Article #1072Re: Grammar
From: K. Steele
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:34
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:34
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Just a few thoughts: MY eigth grade English teacher taught sentence diagramming as a game. A competition on teams. Although I make my living as a writer I am hard-pressed to define "future perfect" and past participle. But I can diagram the heck out of most sentences in less than 30 seconds. The advantage in this has been that while I can't name all the parts of speech, it is not difficult to use them correctly. If you enjoy cross-word puzzles or word games, you might find that you enjoy diagramming a sentence (the old fashioned way). Words are just tools, you can argue tense and significance all day long, when you let yourself master the tool.
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