# Diagraming Sentences!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 21, 2001, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagraming-sentences/77329 "2001-08-21T13:51:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagraming-sentences/77329/61 "2003-03-09T13:49:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bibliophage \* > \*\*I hate, hate, hated sentence diagramming. And no, it did not do a damn thing to improve my grammar… \*\* Maybe it could have taught you that “damned” is the proper form for an adjective? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Another\_Primate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagraming-sentences/77329/62 "2003-03-09T14:04:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amarinth \* > \*\* (Students who finished early were given more, usually easier, sentences to diagram. \*\* Ouch! My fifth grade teacher, Ida Wendt, (what an inappropriate name for someone who cared about grammar!) would sit at the back of the classroom during assignments. When you were done, you carried your work back, and sat back down at your desk to do **whatever you wanted to do,** which for me was usually reading a book. I loved her, and still do. Anecdote: Mom’s last name was Hugo. She had a classmate with her first name whose last name was Igo. She also had a classmate with last name of Wendt. Can you hear a teacher calling out role? ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagraming-sentences/77329/63 "2003-03-09T19:31:59Z")
Believe it or not, there was one day I was like whoa! Gladi I learned to diagram sentences, one day it hit me how much sense it made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diagraming-sentences/77329.md?page=3)