I only encountered sentence diagrams once in my life, in the 8th grade, where my English teacher used them drawing on old books she’d recovered from the closets of the junior high (every school has old book closets, and they are often full of treasures).
I loved it. It was just the sort of geeky, rules-discerning, writing-related kind of thing that someone like me would get into. I don’t know that it would be helpful to everyone (not everyone is into grammar, and I’m not sure that formal grammar education beyond a certain level is terribly useful), but for some kids (and adults) it could really help provide an understanding of the language and its parts.
So it’s keen to seem someone else who liked them, too … with special bonuses in the comments of links for the Pledge of Allegiance and the Preamble of the Constitution …
Gah!
*Makes the sign of the cross and run screaming into the street fleeing the abomination…*
What’s the matter? Sentence diagramming too structured for hippie school? 😉
You come by it honestly. It was one of my favorite things to do in English grammar (back in the days when they taught English grammar).
LOL. Yeah, Mom, I can see you being the sentence diagramming sort. 🙂
No…I was in regular school by the point that this came up…two weeks of utter, pointless boredom.
The joy that was Hippy School was 4th, 5th and 6th grades.
I actually had one teacher in junior high who made diagramming sentences fun. Never before or later.