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Originally posted by Carl Childress
Truth to tell, this is more fun than discussing verbal obstruction.
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Possibly, but I am put in mind of James Thurber's essay entitled "Here lies Miss Groby" in which he commented about his teacher of English composition: "It wasn't what prose said that interested Miss Groby; it was the way prose said it. The shape of a sentence crucified on a blackboard (parsed, she called it) brought a light to her eye."
I enjoyed the grammar lesson, but let's not extend it to diagramming sentences, OK?
[I can't remember if the title of an essay should be underlined or enclosed in quotation marks. But on an Internet site, underlining means something else anyway.]
Dave Reed