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johntpartee
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| Ya mean I gotta draw you a picture? |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Dear johntpartee,
Old saying: 1 picture = 1000 words. 
Regards,
John |
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scot47
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| Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:07 am Post subject: toture |
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| When I was aged 10 ,grammatical analysis was my first real intellectual challenge. But I got it. All children should be subject to this same torture ! Preferably at gunpoint. |
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LongShiKong
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| A mild-mannered English teacher from Africa had tried to introduce my secondary school class to the basics of parsing and simple diagrams, but was soon shouted down by those who had a disrepect for learning and doubtless felt threatened by anything at all "challenging" |
Perhaps once they saw the parse diagrams, they thought they were in for a day of making dangling mobiles with bent coat hangers, and string. What a let down! |
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fluffyhamster
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| Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, that was back in about 1983-4, so any mobiles would've been so large they'd've needed more than a coat hanger to suspend them. (The main thing that got dangled and dropped from my school's windows were lighters - in the hope that the flints would impact into the gas chamber and create a fireball - and waterbombs (perhaps to put out a teacher on fire, not that I ever saw any LOL)). |
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teacheratlarge
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Honestly, I'm not sure it's worth the time. I do some minimal identifying of parts of speech in some classes, but unless you're teaching an advanced class for poetry, creative writing or possibly academic writing, I see little need for it, an extended breakdown of sentences.
I suppose some grammar worshiping teachers or visual learners may find a strong need for it, but since when do we want to study English as a dead language?  |
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