Does anyone remember learning to diagram sentences from school? I remember that, and it is funny how, if we learn this, we learn it so early when really grammar is one of the most complicated things the human brain can learn to understand, and even without diagramming sentences we intuitively understand how grammar works and can even understand language that is inept or broken ... like comments full of errors or typos. Our brains are pretty amazing.
shareMy eighth-grade English teacher taught us to diagram sentences, and I loved doing it so much I would do it just for fun. That was over fifty years ago, and I've completely forgotten how it's done.
shareYeah, me to, but basically I remember subject-verb-object and then various types of modifiers and descriptors. I think this is now used big time in computer science and natural language programming, and statistical trees to predict what is being said and the meaning. I think we did this in 4th grade way back when. Seems like that is something that should be introduced really early because it creates all these branches in our verbal understanding.
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