TXMary2 Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I am confused. LOL I put a picture on FB of sentence diagramming that ds and I were working on. Lots of comments, but one came from a public school teacher friend and it said: "We diagram sentences but we use a different method." I didn't realize there was a different method. Do any of you know what she is talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newlifemom Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Different texts diagram compound sentences differently. I am not sure about other things though. They do get pretty the more complicated the sentence, don't they?:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted March 2, 2011 Author Share Posted March 2, 2011 Different texts diagram compound sentences differently. I am not sure about other things though. They do get pretty the more complicated the sentence, don't they?:D Hmmmm....pretty isn't exactly the word my son used to describe it. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 We have always used Rod & Staff. But when we were doing Classical Writing, they diagrammed sentence complements differently. I can't remember the grammar program emphasized in CW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara R Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 I remember learning some different method in upper division English major classes...Noam Chomsky? Looked it up: universal grammar, generative grammar, tree diagrams (scroll to the bottom of the link) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 Then there's just basic labeling, a la Shurley Grammar, and lots of people these days refer to that as "diagramming" a sentence (though it's not, actually). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXMary2 Posted March 3, 2011 Author Share Posted March 3, 2011 Then there's just basic labeling, a la Shurley Grammar, and lots of people these days refer to that as "diagramming" a sentence (though it's not, actually). This. This is what she called diagramming - circling nouns, underlining subjects and predicates, putting triangles and rectangles around adjectives and adverbs. I thought these were "grammar exercises" - not diagramming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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