The End of the English Major

Re:The End of the English Major by bitwize on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @12:36PM (#34972222)

> Definitely a pain if you're trying to teach it in a sentence-diagramming kind of way.

I can definitely see the first sentence, alone, serving as an extra credit question on a high schooler's English test: Diagram this sentence!

But that's a high schooler from my era (first half of the 90s). Much less seems to be expected of today's high schoolers.

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Re:The End of the English Major by anonymouskimmer on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:36PM (#34973008)

I'll give it a shot:

Subject: "A throng of bearded men"

Things which gild the subject: ", in sad-colored garments, and gray, steeple-crowned hats"

Additions to the subject: ", intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded"

Verb: ", was assembled"

Object: "in front of a wooden edifice"

Things which gild the object: ", the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes."

And I think the "was heavily timbered" would be a verb if this long sentence had been broken up into two sentences.

So basically I recall that English is typically an SVO language. And other than "verb", I have no idea what these things are called. Maybe "in front of" is an adverb? And the gilding is mostly adjectives (and noun-adjective combos)?

How'd I do?

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