So....I wonder when I'm going to find time to learn how to diagram sentences?
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When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse by Ben Yagoda
The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal
Oh God, it's the grammatical equivalent of a Venn diagram.
ReplyDeleteInvented by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellog.
How can you resist learning how to do this when it's invented by someone with the name of "Brainerd?"
The link Reed and Kellog's book is here:
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=nietz;cc=nietz;view=toc;idno=00ABY4888m
Scroll way down and you can click on the links to see all the lessons in the book.
I desperately wish to learn sentence diagramming.
ReplyDeleteI got started awhile back; then got derailed. (No idea how to diagram that.)
You must read Mulroy's WAR AGAINST GRAMMAR!
Fricking Jumping Jack Rabbits!
ReplyDeleteYou have totally brought on flashbacks from my childhood.
I distinctly remember doing diagrams upon diagrams while growing up.
You think it would of stuck, but my grammar is still horrible (relatively).
I must learn diagramming!
ReplyDeleteSo must Christopher!
ReplyDeleteDavid Mulroy made me realize that I have virtually no ability to read modern poetry or archaic texts.
ReplyDeleteHe's a classicist; he uses diagramming to help with translations.