Have you ever diagrammed a sentence

[slodave]

Yup. Hated it.

[RWebb]

I had to do it in school - not fun. I do ever'thin' by ear anyway - no rules.

I recall some little wierd tripod you were supposed to sit some fragment up on...

You can imagine how well diagramming went over when half the kids use French constructions (Louisiana) with English words in them... and not even modern Parisian French either.

Dat boat, she good!

[Erakad]

Definitely....8th grade english.

[stogie25]

Yes, in junior high and in high school.

[lm6y]

Was supposed to, but didn't. I asked the teacher "When will I ever use this in the real world?" Automatic trip to the office, and detention for a week. Managed to do enough extra credit to pass the class.

[ben parrish]

Yup!!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Yes. All the way up through my first semester of linguistics at university. Bleh.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by mossguy

Yes! Found it useful and challenging in grade school (1941-1949)

Best,
Tom

They had grade school back then?

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

They had grade school back then?

Yes, and he had to walk to school uphill both ways, barefoot, in January.

[gtc]

I've never seen that method before.

[masraum]

I initially thought, wow, a bunch of folks have diagrammed sentences, but really, this is a fairly low response so far, so the numbers may not be very high.