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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I honestly can't remember if I diagrammed sentences or not. Graduated from HS in the mid-aughts. [b]What's this like super important sentence diagramming skill used for[/b]? Being smart and having access to information is really all a driven kid needs. With a parent to help guide them a bit, they'll get on fine. And they'll also figure out the parts of speech one way or another. [/quote]

Not much. It's something two Americans invented 150 years ago, and it's mostly an end in itself. Certainly people who study language, aka linguists, don't use it.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4568

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I learned the parts of speech, very well, while studying foreign language, not in an immersion program, and not in elementary school, and not from diagramming.

But anyway plenty of students who trudged through diagramming exercises never really mastered the parts of speech so the people who were going to learn, probably did one way or another, and some people just never were. [/quote]

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