Words are used to form sentences, but do words form ideas? Would it not be more accurate to say strings of words -- as sentences, whether textual or as speech streams -- are _used to express_ ideas?
Is this going to be on the SAT? If not, why is this important to know? Kids get into colleges every year without being able to perform sentence diagramming. This is a sincere question.
Diagramming should help students learn to read well, write well, and speak well by seeing how language is structured. There's more to learning than simply memorizing what's going to be on a test. That's the problem with America's public education system. That's likely why America ranks very low in education among other developed countries. This is a more classical approach to education, so you're going to learn things you don't always learn in public schools, but I learned this in high school, and I loved it!
Children, teens and even young adults benefit from diagramming if they are visual learners. I would actually call it language artwork. I, myself, was taught this way in my high school years, and am a visual learner. It really helped me to understand English in a way I couldn't comprehend before.
Does Classical Academic Press have a resource to teach sentence diagramming as a seperate subject or is enmeshed within the lessons of Well Ordered Language textbooks or neither? I'm lookin for something to learn how to do what you taught in this video, but for more complex sentences that might show up in the Epistles of St. Paul or other complex sentence structures.
We plan on starting this program next year in our homeschool. I enjoyed this taste of what we will be working with in the future! Thank you!
Outstanding presentation! It is great to be reminded of the educational rules of correct English that we learned many years ago. Thank you.
Thank you, Mike! Glad you enjoyed it!
Tired is actually a participle it isnt a gerund
Words are used to form sentences, but do words form ideas? Would it not be more accurate to say strings of words -- as sentences, whether textual or as speech streams -- are _used to express_ ideas?
Is this going to be on the SAT? If not, why is this important to know? Kids get into colleges every year without being able to perform sentence diagramming. This is a sincere question.
Diagramming should help students learn to read well, write well, and speak well by seeing how language is structured. There's more to learning than simply memorizing what's going to be on a test. That's the problem with America's public education system. That's likely why America ranks very low in education among other developed countries. This is a more classical approach to education, so you're going to learn things you don't always learn in public schools, but I learned this in high school, and I loved it!
@@MJ-st9sq thank you for responding. I appreciate it!
Children, teens and even young adults benefit from diagramming if they are visual learners. I would actually call it language artwork. I, myself, was taught this way in my high school years, and am a visual learner. It really helped me to understand English in a way I couldn't comprehend before.
3:00 I don't understand. Don't you also grow wiser and grow hungry? You are saying, tired is a verbal, but not these others?
Does Classical Academic Press have a resource to teach sentence diagramming as a seperate subject or is enmeshed within the lessons of Well Ordered Language textbooks or neither? I'm lookin for something to learn how to do what you taught in this video, but for more complex sentences that might show up in the Epistles of St. Paul or other complex sentence structures.
That's pretty cool to see just how complex language really is in a picture or a "diagram"
nice post
I love it