emka
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2011
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- German
- Home Country
- Germany
- Current Location
- Germany
Could somebody point me to a website, or maybe a few, where I can refresh my rusty knowledge of sentence patterns, parts of speech or whatever it is called by linguists and language teachers? I want to be able to identify words and phrases by their form and their function in a sentence.
Of course a google search brings up a lot of hits, the effect being that I am overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. So far the result has been that the material has scared me off.
I don’t want to buy a book (yet), and I don’t want it described at PhD level where I am presented with tree structures that look as confusing as chemical formulas to me.
As I am a visual learner, I am looking for something that’s typographically well designed using colours, bolding, boxes or other means of illustrating what is what (e.g. by providing model sentences in which the words or phrases are marked in a certain colour that corresponds with a term/category/part of speech previously explained and assigned that respective colour). It is basically what one would do with a marker pen when analysing sentence structures in class. There may be other or better ways to deal with this topic, but this method of dissecting sentences into bits, colour coding them and analysing the words or phrases has proven very effective for me with Latin.
Thank you.
Of course a google search brings up a lot of hits, the effect being that I am overwhelmed and don’t know where to start. So far the result has been that the material has scared me off.
I don’t want to buy a book (yet), and I don’t want it described at PhD level where I am presented with tree structures that look as confusing as chemical formulas to me.
As I am a visual learner, I am looking for something that’s typographically well designed using colours, bolding, boxes or other means of illustrating what is what (e.g. by providing model sentences in which the words or phrases are marked in a certain colour that corresponds with a term/category/part of speech previously explained and assigned that respective colour). It is basically what one would do with a marker pen when analysing sentence structures in class. There may be other or better ways to deal with this topic, but this method of dissecting sentences into bits, colour coding them and analysing the words or phrases has proven very effective for me with Latin.
Thank you.