Brad Johnston wrote:
That's funny Brad. Sentence diagramming may be something like a surrey
with the fringe on top, but it can still be a useful pedagogical and
analytical tool; it isn't just a convenient amusement for children on
sunny afternoons. That said, being forced to do it in the fifth grade
cured me of any interest in grammar for about the next twenty years.
Mark
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> --- On *Sun, 11/16/08, Scott /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
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> From: Scott <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: ATEG Digest - 3 Nov 2008 to 15 Nov 2008 (#2008-237)
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 7:54 PM
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> The sentence may be easily diagrammed using the Reed-Kellog method; however,
> I have no idea of how to do R-K on line.
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> Scott Catledge
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> 1. Please analyse this - from John Curran
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> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:29:12 +0900
> From: John Curran <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Please analyse this - from John Curran
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> Following is an article from yesterday's "The Japan Times". I
> gave it to a
> couple of my adult classes here in Tokyo for discussion; for my students it
> perhaps was a long rather difficult sentence - but interesting from the
> current political position:
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> "Amid dismal approval ratings, Prime Minister Taro Aso is trying hard
> these days to shed his public image as an aloof, rich politician from an
> extremely wealthy family, perhaps with an eye toward appealing to voters
> when the time comes to call an election".
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> I try to discuss parts of interesting newspaper articles and I encourage the
> students to finish the rest of the article in their spare time.
> Unfortunately most Japanese students read with a moving finger and pursed
> lips and my objective is to try to encourage them to recognize the
> 'chunks'
> of language from a mainly functional perspective. Chunks of language in the
> form of noun groups (including their adjectivals), adverbials (Circumstances
> in Systemic Functional Linguistic jargon) and etc. This is how I went about
> analyzing the newspaper text:
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> Amid dismal approval ratings,
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> prepositional phrase, Circumstance - adverbial (how?),
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> Prime Minister Taro Aso
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> Noun group, subject, Participant (in Systemic Functional language)
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> is trying
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> predicate verb, present continuous verb, action Process (in Systemic
> Functional language)
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> hard these days
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> adverbials,(Circumstances)
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> [[to shed his public image as an aloof, rich politician from an
> extremely wealthy family]]
>
> Complement (is trying what?) embedded clause functioning as a
> Participant in Systemic Functional language.
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>
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> perhaps with an eye toward appealing to voters when the time comes to
> call an election
>
> adverbial - Circumstance modifying the previous clause.
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> I read aloud with the students and ask them relevant wh? questions to elicit
> the 'chunks' of language. Comments please on this? Has anybody the
> ability
> to show this in Kellog Reed diagram form in the forum?
>
> I like to see it diagrammed!
>
>
>
> John
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