Grappling Grammarians
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Wow...the Grammar Bible for Sister Scholastica from my grades 3-5 (yes, I had her for three years). She was the diagramming Nazi...yet, I have to thank her today! I learned well.
I am fluent in my math facts and could even now, 50+ years later, diagram any sentence or geometric figure, thanks to her.

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Thanks, friend. This is awesome! Brings back my childhood! Dang, I bet I am the only person I know who thinks this is neat! And I thought I was a math nerd! By the way, the language/grammar wars have nothing on the math wars of the past two decades!

Thanks, Hal. I hope you are not implying that I am an "inveterate fusspot".

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Maryann, was that really her name? Great name for a teacher!

And 12 Hail Mary's for calling a nun a Nazi!

I myself never could get the whole structure thing down. I still have to do the "Schoolhouse Rock" songs when trying to figure out parts of a sentence! LOL.

[This message has been edited by Cory Cutting (4/10/2012)]

That was her name, Cory. I was a first grader in 1967 the legends of Sr. Scholastica were alive and well.

[This message has been edited by Richard Bonine, Jr. (4/11/2012)]