The trouble with articles like this is they never mention phrase structure
trees.  They talk as if there is only one way to make a geometric diagram
of a sentence.  It might be an enlightening exercise to have students
invent new ways to show the relationships between the words in a sentence.
Having them use Reed-Kellog or phrase structure diagrams and then grading
them on right or wrong is discouraging for the students.


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Geoffrey Layton <[log in to unmask]>
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> NCTE just posted this link on its Facebook page - watcha'll think?
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> http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/22/341898975/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences
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