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To: Mr. Silverback

WoW you are great! Amazing.. Bravo... geee whizzz I knew my English teacher told me that diagraming a sentence was good for something.....


10 posted on 10/07/2004 10:08:20 AM PDT by FesterUSMC (If you don't have the hammer you are going to be the anvil, and I would rather be the hammer!)
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To: FesterUSMC
Amazing.. Bravo... geee whizzz I knew my English teacher told me that diagraming a sentence was good for something.....

Actually, grammar is the one part of my English courses I was always riding the ragged edge of disaster on. Now, I wasn't the sort who'd say "I are smart" or something like that, I was just never able to get propositions, clauses, etc., etc. Part of it was that I found it pointless. I couldn't see how being able to tell someone they had a dangling participle would really help me out in life, especially if I was already doing pretty well on grammar just going by instinct. And now, I'm a bona fide professional writer-type person.

So don't sell yourself short...You're probably far more eloquent than you think you are.

16 posted on 10/07/2004 11:11:41 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (If the Cambodia "lie" 100% discredits John O'Neill, what do 50 Cambodia lies do for Kerry?)
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