At 09:58 PM 12/12/2008, Dee Allen-Kirkhouse wrote: . . .Those of us who grew up in >the pre-Chomsky era learned how to diagram a sentence. It opened our eyes >to the various ways we could arrange words for greater effect. . . . DD: Noam is two years older than I. Fortunately I graduated from High School about four years before he formed his ideas about grammar, foisted them off to be abused, misused, and confused. Sigh, I am off to reread, "Rex Barks, Diagramming Sentences Made Easy," Phyllis Davenport's entertaining, edifying, and educating pamphlet. Wait, there's the Henle Latin Grammar text. ISBN 0829401121, paragraphs 1005 -1017 for diagramming. To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/