Grammar

Jamjar74 | 09:43 Sat 19th Jul 2014 | Education

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Can anyone tell me what was the word used when in an English lesson you had to split a sentence into Subject, Predicate, Verb, Adverb, etc. (old school!!). You had to "something" a sentence. Thank you

Those Things And Them Things

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quizzywig

Sorry, I can't remember the word you mean but I do remember doing just that in English language lessons at the Grammar school I went to in the late sixties. I actually used to enjoy doing it. Love the English language!

factor-fiction

parsing?
there was another word too- it'll come back to me

Prudie

Parse I think

margie04

The system was called Analysis at my school. Dividing the sentence into clauses was General Analysis, giving all the intimate details of each word was particular Analysis or Parsing.

UKSWF

Conjugating?

Canary42

Parse

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/parse

Conjugate only applies to verbs.

janbee

We called it parsing.

Jamjar74

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Thank you all, those were the good old days, doubt whether todays kids would know what you we talking about!!

Khandro

//doubt whether todays kids would know what you we talking about!!//
I seriously doubt whether the teachers would.

factor-fiction

And many of today's teachers are unclear on apostrophes. I winced when a letter went out at my school saying "all pupil's (sic) must arrive by ... "

Khandro

^ Ouch!, a door leading to the lavatories in a Cotswold pub bears the sign, Loo's.

factor-fiction

I have seen a Joes Taxi's and a Steves Fish and Chip's

AliceTickband

I have seen pupils' work put up on the wall and the spelling is atrocious.

2 + 2 is always 4 so why are spelling mistakes not corrected? Oh, is it because we must not stifle any creative genius that may surface? You can be a creative genius but it would not be much good if what you wrote could not be understood due to spelling mistakes.

I realise that language is always evolving but surely ship is always spelt s h i p....rant over....gets down from soapbox and goes to lie in a darkened room.