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Posted by CJ at 8:48 am (PST) on Wed February 1, 2023
It is pathetic, that in the almost 14 yrs since @Duff made his comment about spelling, just how much things have gone down hill. The inability to spell words (or even make short sentences) is so prevalent that they have reverted to using glyphs and runes (now called Emojis).
Diagramming sentences is one thing I never had to learn in school. I think my sister had to do it, but being two years younger, by the time I got to that class they had discontinued it. Yippee!
I never understood the need to do this and resisted learning it. A sentence either made sense or it didn't. All this diagramming was pointless. I comprehended things pretty well without it.
Posted by CJ at 7:33 pm (PDT) on Fri April 1, 2016
If it wasn't a "simple" sentence, then diagramming them was a lost cause to me. I wrote a report complaining about the fact I'd never diagram another sentence after I graduated from high school--and I haven't in almost 40 years.
Judging from some of the correspondence I receive, today's students hardly learn to spell, let alone understand proper grammatical form. Yes, your word processor's spell checker may catch many of your typos, but it will often let a homonym slip by undetected. So their!
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