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| danutza Diglot Newbie Romania Joined 6144 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: French | Message 1 of 7 02 February 2008 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I hate linguistics I just don't see the sense of it as long as you can speak correctly a foreign language why on earth should you know how to build up those annoying trees?If anyone knows the meaning of it please share the secret with me so I might konw at least that i'm not struggling in vain to study for my exam.
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 2 of 7 03 February 2008 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Trees? Are you referring to sentence diagrams?
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| danutza Diglot Newbie Romania Joined 6144 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: French | Message 3 of 7 03 February 2008 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes they have many fancy names but I'm better now I didn't make peace with them but I'm doing my best
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6768 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 7 03 February 2008 at 6:39am | IP Logged | ||
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It's a little unusual for language learners to do sentence diagramming; usually, it's used as a learning tool for native-English-speaking students.
I could see how they'd be useful for native speakers of unrelated languages (like Japanese) learning English, just to be aware of how an English sentence is constructed. I imagine Romanian is close enough to English in its basic structure that sentence diagramming would provide little help. (Though I'm sure you would learn quite a bit about your own language by diagramming Romanian sentences.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| danutza Diglot Newbie Romania Joined 6144 days ago 14 posts - 14 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: French | Message 5 of 7 03 February 2008 at 11:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Fair enough but I don't think we study sentence diagramming in order to learn English because we are supposed to have done it already so I assume we just study them for the art't sake
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| guto2005br Tetraglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6139 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, GermanC2, Spanish Studies: Swedish, Italian | Message 6 of 7 05 February 2008 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
i understand what you mean. i never actually bothered to know sentence diagramming.. this is the first time i actually 'hear' someone 'speaking' of this... however, if that is what you need to pass exam, just do it once and relax... there are many things you will learn in life which is just to fill the void i guess. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6316 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 7 of 7 06 February 2008 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I rather like tree diagrams. They give you a simple way of understanding the construction of a sentence.
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