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.”

Note that answers are different for both “streaming” and “bursting,” however!

If you really want to give your students a headache, ask your students to identify the function of “swimming” in the following two sentences:

The photographer took a picture of the swimming pool.
The photographer took a picture of the swimming woman.