Daily Log

Tuesday, September 9

Grammar a la Groucho

"Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana."

We reviewed and explored some grammar basics by way of parsing this famous Groucho-ism.
What part of speech any word may be is determined by its place in the structure of the sentence.

HW due Thursday:
Mr. Potratz distributed a tabloid-sized timeline of American History, to which students are to add certain specified authors supplemented by five of the students' choosing, supplying birth and death dates and the name of at least one of the author's major works.