I understood the way chapter five builds on itself with each sentence structure. And the way it’s diagrammed also builds on itself so I understand it. However I didn’t fully understand her explanation of where to put a comma. That got confusing to me.
Looking at the diagrams makes sense but in a way kind of confusing because it seems very complex. I think it’ll be easier to apprehend than pedestals.
Chapter 5 is all about compounding the simpler structures that we learned in the earlier chapters. It covers how to use FANBOYS to connect independent clauses with other independent or dependent clauses. It also covers how connected clauses have a pattern for each clause.
I have a good understanding of compound sentence diagramming from my middle school private school education, but I am defiantly out of practice on different variations.
Majority of the concepts for chapter 5 were review for me; however, there were a few add-ons, and exercises that posed a challenge for me. I realized that I am better at diagraming compound sentences, and that I am still weak in the area of identifying sentence patterns. This created a problem for me towards the end of the chapter. The very last page of chapter 5 was is an exercise that instructs us to create sentences based on the sentence patterns that were provided to us. In my opinion this was the most challenging exercise within chapter 5. I am also aware that i will need more practice with diagramming in general, but i’m not sure how I am much better at diagramming compound sentences than I am at the diagramming that we’ve been doing in the previous chapters.
The diagramming that this chapter introduces is worrisome for me. Personally, I find diagramming to be one of my weaker abilities when it comes to this class, only really making sense if I break it down in a certain way. But here, compound sentences are turning a single diagram into a branching diagram with multiple sub-branches of its own, and I think it’s going to take some specific focus on the way compounding changes diagramming to understand it fully. The rules behind semicolon sentence diagramming are something I can barely even approach. The rules of compound sentences make sense to me on their own, applied simply to breaking down the sentences, but the diagrams are intimidating.
I found this chapter a bit difficult on my first read-through, mainly because I have not worked with the idea of clauses in a while. It will also take me a while to get used to the diagramming of compound structures in comparison to diagramming the first ten sentence patterns. Diagramming compound sentences seems much more similar to the diagramming we have done so far, but I still do not fully understand it. However, I’m certain this will get easier with more practice.
This seems easy enough. The chapter only adds in clauses and makes the diagrams bigger.
Simple enough. Multi-tiered platforms on main line and suspended connecting platforms.
Chapter 5 was relatively easy, I think I struggled the most with the diagramming of the simple sentences with compound subjects, verbs, DO, and/prepositional phrases. I know that this should be easier than diagramming the compound sentences; however, I think I find the compound sentences easier to diagram, because the subjects and verb are separated into separate clauses.
I had trouble with problem 6 on page 5.2, “Husbands and wives should not reveal their personal lives or their fantasies to strangers.” I think when I was looking at this sentence (and as I was trying to break it up) I had a hard time imagining what the diagram would look like. I did well with the exercises that required us to punctuate sentences and combine sentences into compound sentences. I think with a little extra practice I will be able to diagram these compound sentences. I, also, think it would be beneficial to mark the compound subjects, etc. before diagramming.