Sentences as flowers

[Frank Antonson]

When I was in college, I briefly studied botany. One of the best things about the study was to dissect flowers under a stereoscopic microscope. A tulip has all of the parts -- pistil, stamen, petals, anthers, etc. In a tulip they are easy to see. I didn't make a botanist, but I never forgot the beauty that I saw. Sentences are like that -- at least when diagrammed in the R-K way.
They are individually beautiful. So many of the parts are there, but they are arranged in such a varied fashion.

[Lacretstreet]

A tulip has all of the parts -- pistil, stamen, petals, anthers, etc. In a tulip they are easy to see.

Also with Orchids,Fuchias,Honeysucles,and many more you can see all the parts.

[Kondorosi]

When I was in college, I briefly studied botany. One of the best things about the study was to dissect flowers under a stereoscopic microscope. A tulip has all of the parts -- pistil, stamen, petals, anthers, etc. In a tulip they are easy to see. I didn't make a botanist, but I never forgot the beauty that I saw. Sentences are like that -- at least when diagrammed in the R-K way.
They are individually beautiful. So many of the parts are there, but they are arranged in such a varied fashion.

We can draw further analogies between the corresponding parts.

- The keen blade of a scalpel is to a tulip as a keen mind is to a sentence.
- A microscope is to a tulip as a set of eager eyes are to a sentence.
- A pistil is to a flower as a VP is to a sentence.
- A stamen is to a flower as an indirect object is to a ditransitive verb.
- I do not make a grammarian, but I will never forget the beauty that I see with the aid of RK.

[Frank Antonson]

Kondorosi,
I can't see that you won't make a grammarian, but I liked the rest of what your said.
Something in my comparison that I failed to mention is that in looking at an orchid, say, through a stereoscopic microscope, one is not looking at the labels or names of the parts, but rather at the parts themselves with their endlessly varied architecture. R-K is similar in that there are no labels -- just the sentence itself displayed.

[Frank Antonson]

Lacretstreet,

Tahitian! -- Wow! Its syntax must be interesting!

[Lacretstreet]

...I guess..anyway ,flowers are great! We decorate with flowers all the time...

[Frank Antonson]

Yes they are! And I bet you have some amazingly beautiful ones in Tahiti!
Don't people speak French in Tahiti? As well as Tahitian?
Does that mean that you speak four languages?

[knowledge]

Sentences are like that -- at least when diagrammed in the R-K way.

Hello teacher Frank,
Hope you are doing fine. Please tell me what is R-K stands for.
Thanks

[Frank Antonson]

Hi there, Knowledge,

R-K stands for "Reed-Kellogg", a system of diagramming sentences that they developed in the late 1800's and which, until about 30 years ago, was used widely in the USA to teach syntax.
DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES
is a site that nicely shows you most of it quickly.

Remember, you are probably the first ever to use the system for Urdu.

Frank

[knowledge]

Hi there, Knowledge,

R-K stands for "Reed-Kellogg", a system of diagramming sentences that they developed in the late 1800's and which, until about 30 years ago, was used widely in the USA to teach syntax.
DIAGRAMMING SENTENCES
is a site that nicely shows you most of it quickly.

Remember, you are probably the first ever to use the system for Urdu.

Frank

Thanks for explaining "Reed-Kellogg". I am glad teacher that I am the first one who use the sytem in urdu, thanks for introducing it to me :)