Ed Schuster says that virtually all schools teach grammar, starting in the
first grade.  Perhaps I should rephrase my question. I know that most
teachers talk about parts of speech.  I guess what I am looking for are
schools in which children do a lot of sentence diagramming and get into
grammar in some depth.  I always remember visiting a fifth grade class at
the Brookfield Academy outside of Milwaukee.  Children play a game in
which they realize abstract diagrams with "gross sentences."  As a test I
asked for an example of a gross linking sentence whose subject was a
gerund with a direct object.  Virtually every hand in the class shot
up.  The first example:  "Spewing chunks is unpleasant."  What I am
looking for is schools that attack grammar in that way.  Are Brookfield
fifth-graders are really typical of students nationwide?




On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Edgar Schuster wrote:

> Frankly, it would be harder to find elementary schools that DIDN'T teach the
> parts of speech.  And why start at 3rd grade?  They start in first.
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