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Deleted user 30 May 2007 15:58:04

morriss wrote:
This is basically the root of my teachings:

In fact, scroll down to 4.A and click on the mini-diagrams before the sentences themselves. Once the Java-Applet is loaded click Expand Tree and you should get the whole sentence analysed to base level.

Edited by morriss at 15:53:52 30-05-2007

Cool site - I just installed the plug-in so I could see the trees. :-)

Text analysis (i.e discourse) is my specialty in my field; how come you are in the business of sentence analysis - study, work or...pleasure?

morriss 30 May 2007 16:02:16 71,293 posts
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Study. I'm English but I live in Denmark, and I chose English as a degree at uni. Grammar is obviously a part of the course and this is the sort of stuff we had to do. We had to do other things too of course. But an exam question was analysing a sentence down to base level.

Had to know it all by heart too.

The only grammar I've had previously was when I was twelve at school, then all of a sudden, 25 years later, just 'talking' English, I was thrown into the Lions den. Still I passed and that's all history now.

Can't remember too much of it either.

Deleted user 30 May 2007 16:06:45

Makes sense - my wife, who studies English (in Hungary), had to do similar sentence analysis, whereas I never did (I studied in England). It's only through reading / studying on my own, in relation to my job, that I've learnt it.

morriss 30 May 2007 16:07:53 71,293 posts
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Yeah. Learning it as a 'foreign language' in far more in depth and technical.

Deleted user 30 May 2007 16:11:05

Exactly.

NewYork 1 Jun 2007 10:46:26 24,807 posts
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Of course you don't have to put a question mark after innit.

This is as retarded as the guy who kept hounding me for not putting a question mark after WTF.

Stickman 1 Jun 2007 10:47:25 29,986 posts
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2/10

Moot_Point 2 Aug 2013 15:54:12 5,530 posts
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Schools should stop providing lessons in spelling and grammar because children can correct linguistic errors on their mobile phones, according to a leading academic. Article.

What say thou grammar nazis?

JYM60 2 Aug 2013 15:57:25 19,085 posts
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First page of this thread makes me want to kill myself.

X201 2 Aug 2013 15:57:59 22,150 posts
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It is a sense sea Bill I deer

Deleted user 2 August 2013 15:58:51

Might as well do away with all education entirely as they can just look it up on Wikipedia.

DodgyPast 2 Aug 2013 16:23:47 9,353 posts
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Moot_Point wrote:
Schools should stop providing lessons in spelling and grammar because children can correct linguistic errors on their mobile phones, according to a leading academic. Article.

What say thou grammar nazis?

Good luck getting a job when you use text speech in your covering letter for a job application.

What about writing essays? Arguing a point?

The scary thing is that the Thai students I teach can probably do a better job of those tasks in English than a native speaker of the same age.

Deleted user 2 August 2013 16:28:38

I think this guy envisions a future where we basically communicate solely through texts and twitter. That's not an exaggeration or sarcasm, that's seriously what he seems to believe.

DodgyPast 2 Aug 2013 18:23:52 9,353 posts
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@PenguinJim

Oddly enough I do. Other half's phone doesn't do data, only wi-fi.

Personally I try to use decent English whenever I can though occasionally bastardise it into the way Thais often use it when trying to communicate something important quickly.

Deleted user 2 August 2013 19:16:09

JYM60 wrote:
First page of this thread makes me want to kill myself.

I think I nearly did the first time round, I was doing okay until I just read it again a few minutes ago.

Bunda 5 Aug 2013 10:36:33 5,246 posts
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cubbymoore wrote:

JYM60 wrote:
First page of this thread makes me want to kill myself.
I think I nearly did the first time round, I was doing okay until I just read it again a few minutes ago.

This thread makes me want to kill everyone

Deleted user 5 August 2013 10:47:59

DodgyPast wrote:

What about writing essays? Arguing a point?

A girl at my school in my year wrote her entire GCSE English exam in block capitals.

FartPipe 5 Aug 2013 10:52:58 5,307 posts
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I'm going to have to go to the first page now aren't I?

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