Maybe they mean "if you would, send me stuff"? And left out the please?
I think we diagrammed sentences for a week in middle school. Like, total five hours.
I didn't figure out what direct and indirect objects were until Spanish class!
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Jun 15, 2011 6:30:05 pm PDT #15288 of 28769
Steph L. - Jun 15, 2011 6:32:52 pm PDT #15289 of 28769
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Maybe they mean "if you would, send me stuff"? And left out the please?
Hmmm. That usage sounds too formal for them. Possibly they mean, that, although I think they mean "If you would send me stuff, that would be great." Because it sounds like a nicer way of saying "Send me stuff now, you slacker."
erin_obscure - Jun 15, 2011 7:58:20 pm PDT #15290 of 28769
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
everything i know about grammar i learned in Latin. No, really. Then during the single week in high school when we diagrammed sentences, i totes aced the diagramming, since only the Latin students knew the difference between an object and a preposition. It was sad.
Atropa - Jun 15, 2011 8:09:26 pm PDT #15291 of 28769
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I love diagramming sentences. It makes English mathy!
Oh! That explains why I hate diagramming sentences. It's all so clear, now.
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2011 12:57:51 am PDT #15292 of 28769
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
J.K. Rowling started the website Pottermore.com. All it says so far is "Coming soon ..." [link]
hippocampus - Jun 16, 2011 3:00:04 am PDT #15293 of 28769
not your mom's socks.
Happy Bloomsday!
What? Sentence diagraming and Joyce? Peanut butter and jelly.
Finished Feed. Damn.
Sue - Jun 16, 2011 6:15:52 am PDT #15294 of 28769
hip deep in pie
I don't think I've ever diagrammed a sentence. My grammar skills are crap.
smonster - Jun 16, 2011 6:26:58 am PDT #15295 of 28769
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I didn't mind diagramming sentences, but Universal Grammar diagramming makes the baby Jesus cry. Well, it did me.
-t - Jun 16, 2011 6:43:16 am PDT #15296 of 28769
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Diagramming sentences was one of the things I missed in switching tracks between 6th and 7th grade (along with Earth Science and probably a bunch of stuff I don't even know about), but it was being taught when I was in school and I picked up a little bit when later English teachers would throw a little diagramming around.
sj - Jun 16, 2011 6:44:16 am PDT #15297 of 28769
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I don't remember ever diagramming sentences in school.