A teacher in my department came to me this morning for help diagramming
this clause from a Fitzgerald sentence: when we were still some distance
away.  What should she do with distance?
Dawn

Fay Sweney wrote:

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> teachers in my school district are currently evaluating curriculum.
> One step is to identify the complexity of what we expect kids to
> learn.  We are in disagreement about this.  Using Bloom's taxonomy,
> how would you classify the complexity of questions like those below--
> Comprehension? Application?  Analysis?  And why? 1.  Is the underlined
> word in the following sentence a preposition?     The dog ran across
> the street. 2.  Which of the following sentences contains a
> prepositional phrase?     a.  The cowboys rode their horses.     b.
> The cowboys gave the horses a drink.      c. The cowboys rode their
> horses into the sunset. My book was found under a fluffy pillow.3. The
> word pillow functions as      a. an adjective      b. a noun      c. a
> preposition      d. a pronoun 4.  What is the structure of this
> sentence?      a. simple       b. compound       c. complex Fay Sweney
>
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> 6101 N. Ramsey Rd.
> Coeur d'Alene, ID 83815
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