Diagramming was a cool thing they used to teach in school to show how each word in a sentence was related to the subject and predicate. It was a whole process you did on the blackboard or notebook and there were special rules. What it taught you were the parts of speech REALLY well and you knew EXACTLY which part of speech each word in the sentence was. In this case, Lord was the main noun of the subject, modified by The. Loveth is the verb and giver is the object (loves who/what?). Then "a" and "cheerful" are article and adjective modifying giver. We were taught this whole exercise by a scary nun in 6th grade who was like a tank: Sr. Leona... but we sure knew our grammar and sentence structure by the end of the year!
Yes ^^ this! I can still see the writing on the blackboard and in my note book where you had to diagram it out and you had better use a ruler to draw your lines neatly!
u/007wannabee you may want to pay particular attention to Bito' on this answer, because it is put to you in both the most correct and simple manner. Spot on and perfectly said. -many thanks u/Bito-on -your answer here is very much appreciate. cheers 🍻
Kind of ironic that a hotshot spelling exam can't even spell correctly: "Physiology - what does the liver secrate"
I would fail to understand some of these questions. "Diagram: The Lord loveth a cheerful giver". What does that even mean?
Diagramming was a cool thing they used to teach in school to show how each word in a sentence was related to the subject and predicate. It was a whole process you did on the blackboard or notebook and there were special rules. What it taught you were the parts of speech REALLY well and you knew EXACTLY which part of speech each word in the sentence was. In this case, Lord was the main noun of the subject, modified by The. Loveth is the verb and giver is the object (loves who/what?). Then "a" and "cheerful" are article and adjective modifying giver. We were taught this whole exercise by a scary nun in 6th grade who was like a tank: Sr. Leona... but we sure knew our grammar and sentence structure by the end of the year!
Yes ^^ this! I can still see the writing on the blackboard and in my note book where you had to diagram it out and you had better use a ruler to draw your lines neatly!
100% 👍
u/007wannabee you may want to pay particular attention to Bito' on this answer, because it is put to you in both the most correct and simple manner. Spot on and perfectly said. -many thanks u/Bito-on -your answer here is very much appreciate. cheers 🍻
Thank you fren! blushes
Not at all, .. thank you, very much. 🫡🍻
The meaning is in the instruction itself, unless of course this was a rhetorical question.