{"id":7738,"date":"2005-08-24T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/24\/wordstructure-mean-things.html"},"modified":"2005-08-24T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T22:05:25","slug":"wordstructure_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/wordstructure_m.html","title":{"rendered":"Words(tructure) Mean Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I only encountered sentence diagrams<\/a> 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). <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

So it’s keen to seem someone else<\/a> who liked them, too … with special bonuses in the comments of links for the Pledge of Allegiance<\/a> and the Preamble of the Constitution<\/a> …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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