I used Warriner's to teach high school English: 10th and 12th grade.  Even
my 10th graders learned to write well-organized grammatically correct
themes.
The only Chomsky that I used was a Reed-Kellog diagram of "Crazy green ideas
sleep furiously."  I also had them diagram "Twas brillig and the slithy
toves did gyre and gymble in the wabe.  All mimsy were the borogroves and
the momeraths outgrabe"  I had several interesting variations--all quite
possible--on the Lewis Carroll.  When teaching at a Christian school I used
familiar verses from the AV of the Bible.  I had several students tell me
that they had never completely understood familiar verses until they had to
diagram them.  These were A and B students who knew that my grading was
rigid and not subject to brown-nosing.

Scott Catledge

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