is diagramming sentences still a thing

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let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

the math thread made me think about this, is there still diagramming sentences with propositions hanging out on the bottom like a dilz, and different things for verbs and adverbs or what

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Nice Guy Patron: Jun 29, 2015

Yes.

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Ardemia: Jan 2, 2004; IT IS MY RIGHT TO GET BEHIND THE WHEEL WHEN I'VE PUT BACK SIX SHIRLEY TEMPLES OK

Is it a compound sentence or a wiring diagram for a switch?

who knows :shrug:

# ? May 16, 2018 03:54

let it mellow: Jun 1, 2000; Dinosaur Gum

Ardemia posted:

Is it a compound sentence or a wiring diagram for a switch?

who knows

gently caress I thought compound was when u put the grass clippings in the neighbors yard

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bollig: Apr 7, 2006; Never Forget.

My dad thinks that the death of the English language, and thus civilization, started when diagramming sentences ceased to be the foundation of being a student.

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Dogmeat: Jun 20, 2003; Woof!

My two favorite teachers were my eighth grade teacher that was like all gently caress standards and state tests y'all are are ripping apart sentences for a solid year with no breaks or diversions because nobody else is gonna teach you, and the other was my sophomore english teacher that did the same but marginalia. They were fun.

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Return Of JimmyJars: Jun 24, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

I had a teacher call it a "prepper-zistion" in middle school. She didn't seem to understand what it meant either and would get really mad if you contested anything marked wrong on homework and tests.

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puppet pal mitch: Oct 23, 2008

Understanding the structure of a sentence isn't necessary to speaking correctly or sounding articulate and well educated. Every seventh grader has been conjugating verbs correctly for ten years, theres no reason to diagram what theyre already doing. Sentence diagramming, cursive writing and long division should be scrapped because theyre stupid wastes of time

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Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

Not sure what this is OP

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a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

I knew people who still couldn't read by 8th grade.

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Alucard: Mar 11, 2002; Pillbug

People who get snooty about ending sentences in propositions are people I don't want to hang out with.

# ? May 16, 2018 12:35

Dolphin: Dec 5, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Alucard posted:

People who get snooty about ending sentences in propositions are people I don't want to hang out with.

with whom you don't want to hang out

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CRIP EATIN BREAD: Jun 24, 2002; Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T; Soiled Meat

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Dolphin: Dec 5, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Dolphin posted:

with whom you don't want to hang out

without whom you don't want to hang

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

I never diagrammed a sentence and it made no sense and seemed an insane waste of time so hopefully its well and truly dead

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Thots and Prayers: Jul 13, 2006; A is the for the atrocious abominated acts that YOu committed. A is also for ass-i-nine, eight, seven, and six.

B, b, b - b is for your belligerent, bitchy, bottomless state of affairs, but why?

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I'm no good at drawing emojis so I'd fail a modern diagramming class.

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Edgar Allan Pwned: Apr 4, 2011; Quoth the Raven "I love the power glove. It's so bad..."

i did it in fourth and fifth grade but never again. was weirdly into it

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Over There: Jun 28, 2013; by Azathoth

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90s Solo Cup: Feb 22, 2011; To understand the cup
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Barudak posted:

I never diagrammed a sentence and it made no sense and seemed an insane waste of time so hopefully its well and truly dead

Can't recall ever doing this, but there's a lot of poo poo I can't remember or subconsciously suppressed about school, so....

Over There posted:

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Big Beef City: Aug 15, 2013

I learned this in school and while parts of it made sense, many did not.

I have never found a use for it.

My only current ask is that you regard the diagram of I have of an arrow on my belly painted towards my huge balls

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Worf: Sep 12, 2017; If only Seth would love me like I love him!

Big Beef City posted:

My only current ask

this is probably one of my least favorite phrases

# ? May 16, 2018 18:11

Twelve Batmans: Dec 24, 2009; by FactsAreUseless

I loved diagramming sentences. Gave me a solid understanding of how English syntax works and how you could swap certain parts on a sentence around to produce the same or a different effect. Very very fun.

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You are Destiny.

It was when I was in school!

# ? May 16, 2018 18:16

hevnz 2 murgatroyd: Apr 13, 2018; by Smythe

Honestly, if you have a pencil and a piece of paper you can diagram pretty much whatever you want.

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roomforthetuna: Mar 22, 2005; I don't need to know anything about virii! My CUSTOM PROGRAM keeps me protected! It's not like they'll try to come in through the Internet or something!

Diagramming sentences?

code:

|         20 years              |
|-------------------------------|
|   10 years     |  probation   |
|          good behavior        |

# ? May 16, 2018 21:34

Sorryformybadjokes: Apr 21, 2004; I identify as a simian who pronounces the 'silent' letters in words.; Fallen Rib

{get hosed}

^
you

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Sucrose: Dec 9, 2009

puppet pal mitch posted:

Understanding the structure of a sentence isn't necessary to speaking correctly or sounding articulate and well educated. Every seventh grader has been conjugating verbs correctly for ten years, theres no reason to diagram what theyre already doing. Sentence diagramming, cursive writing and long division should be scrapped because theyre stupid wastes of time

If you ever start learning a foreign language you'll suddenly be glad that you were taught the parts of a sentence in English. Like, learning the pronouns in Spanish would be a hell of a lot slower if the teacher had to first explain the very concept of an "indirect object" to the class instead of the students already knowing all that stuff from their middle-school English classes.

But that's really the only thing that it's good for; prepping you to learn a foreign language, so I'm not quite sure why they make such a big deal out of it for a few years in school. Because you're completely right, you don't need anybody to teach you the grammar of your native language; you've already been speaking it perfectly since you were about three.

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Blue Raider: Sep 2, 2006

bollig posted:

My dad thinks that the death of the English language, and thus civilization, started when diagramming sentences ceased to be the foundation of being a student.

i agree with your father

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Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

I think we did sentence diagramming for like one week in middle school

but I later learned it properly on my own as a tool to help me grok the syntax of "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

'cause I'm a NERRRD

puppet pal mitch posted:

Sentence diagramming, cursive writing and long division should be scrapped because theyre stupid wastes of time

hey long division is important for quotient-remainder theorem, which is invaluable for many inductive proofs in discrete mathematics :mad:

[cubone is found hanging by a wedgie from the school flagpole]

Cubone fucked around with this message at 09:34 on May 17, 2018

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