28 Feb
2011
28 Feb
'11
7:28 p.m.
On Mon, February 28, 2011 11:08 am, don kretz wrote:
There are two skills that we all learned (or should have learned :) that required our ability to distinguish between semantics and presentation.
1. Diagramming sentences.
2. Writing an outline.
I think this is common at least among speakers of western languages.
This is an astute and cogent observation. I probably started learning about how to diagram sentences in the 3rd or 4th grade, but I think that diagramming sentences has now fallen from favor. I'm not sure if my children could explain to me what diagramming a sentence is (next time I talk to them, I'm going to find out). Any division of text that does not have a subject (at least implied) and a verb is not a paragraph.