Basic instructional skills

[Bill of Rights]

OK, so we have a thread on the end of instruction in cursive writing. We have a thread on the skills of long division and multiplication.

Has anyone under 40 been taught sentence diagramming? How about under 30?

What other skills are no longer taught?

Blessings,
Bill

 

[iamaclone45]

I’m 26 and the term “sentence diagramming” sounded familiar to me. I had to Google search it to figure out what you were talking about though.

I vaguely remember learning how to do this in school.

 

[lovemachine]

Based on the majority of the posts on this forum, sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, spelling, well, is a dead art anymore.

Just sayin'.

 

[pudly]

I was taught how to use a slide rule by my H.S. chemistry teacher in the late '70s. He didn' believe in them new-fangled calculators.

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

i had to diagram sentences (i turn 35 next week). f'in hated it.

 

[Lucas156]

Never had to do it but I get the concept. Im 23 and I don't think I was ever taught exactly how to do it.

 

[G_Stines]

I'm 21 and I know how to sentence diagram. I was home schooled for the first 5 years before attending a public in sixth grade. So that might have something to do with it...

 

[bluewraith]

I remember having to diagram sentaces for a few different years back in school.. I'm 26 btw.

We had to use a ruler and protractor to make sure the lines were perfect.

 

[Denny347]

Uh....no.

 

[91FXRS]

I'm 33 never heard of that. Then again if it wasn't taught in auto mechanics I wasn't listening.

 

[geronimojoe85]

I'm 26 and I diagramed sentences, in a public school, it was in 4th grade I belive.
Did it for about a month.
I'm my last semester at waubonsee community college I payed money to attend an English class where we diargammed sentences.

 

[DHolder]

I'm 33 never heard of that. Then again if it wasn't taught in auto mechanics I wasn't listening.

Anyone who has read any of my posts knows I spent way more time in auto shop than english class. I always thought it better to be able to fix a car, than to write the manual.

 

[Suprtek]

Wow, diagramming sentences. I completely forgot about ever doing that, but I used to be good at it! I do not fall into the age category you asked about however.

 

[88GT]

I'm 30-something and did it. But I am a bona fide grammar nazi if ever one existed (without the compulsion to correct others, thankfully). I notice split infinitives, sentences ended with a preposition, dangling participles, the plural pronoun incorrectly paired with the singular antecedent (using "their" when it should be "his" or "her" as in "No one should be deprived of their rights."). Yep, that's me.

 

[jsharmon7]

Yes I had to diagram sentences. That was in high school back around 2000.

I'm 30-something and did it. But I am a bona fide grammar nazi if ever one existed (without the compulsion to correct others, thankfully). I notice split infinitives, sentences ended with a preposition, dangling participles, the plural pronoun incorrectly paired with the singular antecedent (using "their" when it should be "his" or "her" as in "No one should be deprived of their rights."). Yep, that's me.

I'm guilty of several of these. I actually do know better, I'm just too lazy to care.