Buffy ,'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But clearly not a victim of Catholic grade school.
It was technically a public school, but it had been started by my Church so they still had nuns teaching there, and I was prepared for the sacraments (communion, 1st confession (is that a sacrament?) and confirmation) during class time.
Oh, the nuns fell down on your education, then! No diagramming of sentences, my goodness. Did they at least throw erasers at you?
I had a English teacher in the seventh grade who told my advanced English class that diagramming sentences was for babies--we were too old for it and she promised we'd never diagram another sentence. And we never did.
She didn't neglect our grammer. She concentrated on it in our writing. She wasn't a young, new teacher, either. She was ancient and verging on retirement but she was very progressive in her teaching style.
From that point in my education, I adored ever single English teacher I had--from middle school on through college.
Did they at least throw erasers at you?
No! These were groovy loving 70's nuns. I only had one nun, Sr. Morrison, in grade 6. (There were only 2 nuns left at the school by the time I got there.) She did occasionally box an ear, but no erasers, no rulers.
My mother went to a Catholic boarding school for a year, (and regualr old non boarding Catholic school the rest of the time) and is still afraid of nuns.
I (born 1972) have never diagrammed a sentence. I know what it is from reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, though.
Somehow I picked up a lot of grammar before I got to foreign languages. But there's nothing like studying Latin and Greek to make you thoroughly aware of the parts of speech, plus verb tenses you never thought anyone would need...
As much time as I spent diagramming sentences with the nuns I am certain I couldn't do it today. I thought it was fun at the time.
eta: graduated HS in 72, so plenty of diagramming in my youth. My children probably don't know what it means.
Where I went to school some of us diagrammed and some of us did not. I was in classes where we did not.
My ancient stick to itself ace bandage is not sticking to itself very well. I don't think my leg is wrapped as tightly as it ought to be.
Plus, my shoulder and neck still hurt.
If I were in charge of the world, everyone would have to diagram sentences for at least a semester. Of course, many people have expressed their gratitude that I'm not in charge of the world.
Ouch. Poor sumi. Do you have cold packs around?
sumi, do you have some tape or a safety pin to secure the ace bandage? Have you taken any painkillers of the anti-inflammatory variety?