re: #174 goddessoftheclassroom

Ah, but I wasn’t your teacher!
It’s not diagramming with lines; it’s determining each word’s part of speech and function according to the syntax. For example, “gleaming” is a gerund, a noun ending in -ing, not a verb because it’s the object of the preposition “at.”

That stuff’s so cool! I used to love diagramming sentences; now I just enjoy nitpicking my co-workers’ poor grammer and spelling.

However, I don’t know the distinction between “O” and “Oh,” will you please enlighten?