And add sentence diagramming. Unless you understand the structure of your native language, you will not use it correctly or properly understand any foreign language.
And add sentence diagramming. Unless you understand the structure of your native language...”
I would suspect that public school teachers under the age of 35 haven’t a clue as to how to properly diagram a sentence. Some of them wouldn’t even know what you are talking about. My grandsons learned how to diagram and parts of speech when they were in the second grade but they were fortunate enough to attend a private school.
Heck, I'd be happy if people would just stop putting an apostrophe before every 's' at the end of plural forms of words. When did that idiotic practice catch on? It's become epidemic.
If you have two apples, you don't have two apple's, for example. Drives me crazy. People have become essentially illiterate.
“And add sentence diagramming. Unless you understand the structure of your native language, you will not use it correctly or properly understand any foreign language.”
Completely correct! Alas, I don’t think that’s been taught for two generations. If it were, even the bare basics, you wouldn’t hear coming up with wrong sentences trying to sound smart, such as, “Jim sent his regards to Steve and I.”
Where in the diagram does the “like” and “ya’know” go?