Re: Diagramming sentences

Tony Cooper <tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Several of the Googlehits for "diagramming sentences" turn up
computer programs to do this or allow the student to build a diagram
on their computer screen.

Damn, but that annoys me. Computers are wonderful gadgets for many
purposes, but there *are* some things best done with a pen or
pencil, a *** of paper, and with a mind that is engaged.

Especially something like diagramming sentences, an activity which
there is basically no reason to engage in *except* to get practice
thinking about the structure of sentences. If you can delegate doing
it, you might as well not.

(I guess that for a teacher or author who wanted to produce nicely
typeset sentence diagrams, such a program would come in handy.)

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