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Subject:Re: Subtly bad sentence construction From:John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> To:Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 29 May 2015 16:34:33 -0400
I got out of that in freshman HS English class when I asked my teacher to
diagram the last sentence in Ulysses ... you know, just to show me how it's
done
Still a wise ass ...
JG
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I was never taught to diagram sentences, and sometimes I think I missed
> out.
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Margaret Cekis <
> margaret -dot- cekis -at- comcast -dot- net>
> wrote:
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> > When all else fails, I go back to diagramming the sentence, and both of
> > those are doozies.
> > Margaret Cekis, Johns Creek GA
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