Journal

I’m trying to teach myself how to use this system of diagramming at the moment because it seems really useful. Dana also posted a monstrosity of a sentence that was very obvious in this format. :)

Other goals: juggling, harmonica, whistling with hand in mouth.

reasoningwithvampires:

(Excerpt from Sin and Syntax, by Constance Hale)

The approach I use when diagramming sentences is called the Reed-Kellogg system. To be honest, I’m not sure that my diagrams are 100% correct because I was never taught how to diagram sentences in school. (I get help from Boyfriend and reference books.)

Reed-Kellogg diagrams are fantastic exercises that force you to consider the relationships between words in a sentence. My primary purpose in diagramming Meyer’s sentences is to make it undeniably apparent how much rambling she does.