reasoningwithvampires:

(Excerpt from Sin and Syntax, by Constance Hale)

The approach I use when diagramming sentences is called the Reed-Kellogg system. To be honest, I’m not sure that my diagrams are 100% correct because I was never taught how to diagram sentences in school. (I get help from Boyfriend and reference books.)

Reed-Kellogg diagrams are fantastic exercises that force you to consider the relationships between words in a sentence. My primary purpose in diagramming Meyer’s sentences is to make it undeniably apparent how much rambling she does.

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    I’m trying to teach myself how to...it seems really useful. Dana also posted a monstrosity...
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    a tedious and opaque process....understood all the various parts of speech and
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    Does it make me nerdy if I used to love diagramming sentences in elementary school?
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    struggle with rambling...as well. They just keep going.
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