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Greybnk48

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21. Does anyone here know of an available book or

Reply to packman (Original post)

Sun May 15, 2016, 08:39 AM

May 2016

a website where diagramming sentences is taught or explained? An English teacher friend of mine and I tried to find something several years ago and no luck. Anyone know?

Thanks in advance. I may not answer this right away as I have to leave o go somewhere. When I saw this post it excited me because of the possibility of finding a resource.

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In case you ever wondered - How would I diagram that sentence about buffalos? [View all] packman May 2016 OP

Oh I do feel old now. Not only do I understand it, I was one of the libdem4life May 2016 #1

I diagrammed sentences in grammar school. CrispyQ May 2016 #2

You just need salad dressing for her sentences. libdem4life May 2016 #3

The loss of phonics was a disaster............ mrmpa May 2016 #8

Back in the day, you couldnt take French or Spanish without two years of Latin. CTyankee May 2016 #13

Absolutely...same here. libdem4life May 2016 #15

I can still conjugate my Latin verbs malaise May 2016 #16

there's a funny Newyorker cartoon of a guy in a prison cell and a teacher is conjugating "amo, CTyankee May 2016 #23

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise May 2016 #24

Yes, Immersion...I had even blocked the title of it. Same with my son... libdem4life May 2016 #17

"New math" was a product of the late fifties and early sixties Brother Buzz May 2016 #9

That's what I did with my elementary classes. We learned it the old fashioned libdem4life May 2016 #18

I bet it wasn't an acyclic graph! scscholar May 2016 #7

I liked diagramming eom LiberalElite May 2016 #12

Me, too. It was like a putting a puzzle together. And when you figured libdem4life May 2016 #19

In 7th grade (the first year we changed classes), we had two "English" classes Rhiannon12866 May 2016 #20

You just reminded me of another "modern" trend...no spelling. libdem4life May 2016 #22

Buffalo is a nice city mindem May 2016 #4

I don't understand the sentence. Chillidog May 2016 #5

Me neither . annabanana May 2016 #6

. struggle4progress May 2016 #11

Is this the same thing? Chillidog May 2016 #14

It's not very well written struggle4progress May 2016 #10

Does anyone here know of an available book or Greybnk48 May 2016 #21

Found some on the Google.... Lars39 May 2016 #25