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grammar confusion??? Help clear me up please.


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I think I get what diagramming is... Yes sad I know. I will be learning with my littles. But I was going to go with shurley english and I keep seeing people say that shurley does not diagram but that diagramming is important.

 

So what does shurley do instead?? Will I need another curriculum to get diagramming in? If Shurley does not diagram then is it not a thourough program for grammar??

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Some programs parse instead of diagramming. I use KISS, and there is no diagramming, but you label all the parts of speech that you have learned thus far. Diagramming is a more visual representation of the sentence structure.

 

I do teach diagramming, though we haven't practiced it in a while. It's not a hard topic for DS1 to learn, so if he can parse the sentence, diagramming it later will be easy peasy.

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Diagramming is just one tool for thinking logically about how sentences are put together. The main thing is the logic, not the tool. Personally, I don't like diagramming, because it HIDES the logical connections for me. I can understand a sentence when I read it, but when I look at a diagram I'm not sure where to start. I much prefer the KISS parsing method --- but that's what I'm used to. Use the tool that helps you think about the logic of the sentence, because that's what is really important.

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