Sentence Diagram
🕑 Added 2020-07-06 14:59:02 +0000 UTCIn our last ep we discussed the need for sentence diagrams and listener Augusta has stepped up with this one of the introduction of B'loody Mary!
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Emily Brown
I learned it, then quickly forgot it.
Justin Cicconi
We never learned to to it when I grew up in NJ, either.
Zach Dewoody
I learned grammar using the “Shirley English” method which mostly consisted of singing about the parts of speech to the tune of Row, row, row your boat. In other words, I didn’t learn grammar.
Moviegique
Oh, there's been a basic literacy test in California schools going back decades for much the same reason. Not surprised it's reached college.
Brian Rogoski
Interestingly, we never were taught to do this in school where I grew up in Florida. Of course, they also have the "Gordon Rule" in Florida, where you're required to write a number of words in college to prove you can read and write because we were giving giving degrees to people who couldn't. Sooo...