I used to be pretty good at diagramming sentences more years ago than I care to remember. However, now I’m tutoring English language learners and have to remember it all over again.
Learn more English words through comics. I learned from technical college and then Jr. College, and I still get criticized though not lately. I have to look up.
Ok, turns out my guess was wrong. I guessed relative would be a sentence where something is better or worse than another, as in “My nuclear button is bigger than your nuclear button.” But I was wrong. The definition is as follows:
Relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who*, that, which, whose, where, when. They are most often used to define or identify the noun that precedes them. For example, the soup that is hot, the person who is old, etc..
Even when I was teaching languages eons ago, they weren’t teaching indirect object in elementary school, never mind relative clause. Made it difficult for a German teacher to get case endings across.
Argythree over 6 years ago
LOL! Good guess, Joe…
jpayne4040 over 6 years ago
Wrong answer, but at least it was really funny!
dsTrekker Premium Member over 6 years ago
I hope he tells us in the next strip.
sheilag over 6 years ago
I had to go look that one up myself. I did well in school, but to honest, who analyzes and diagrams their sentences beyond English class?
Ermine Notyours over 6 years ago
In today’s day-and-date comic, “What’s a gerund?”
trivers over 6 years ago
I used to be pretty good at diagramming sentences more years ago than I care to remember. However, now I’m tutoring English language learners and have to remember it all over again.
Stephen Gilberg over 6 years ago
Hey, why’d they take down the link to Creators?!
kab buch over 6 years ago
Learn more English words through comics. I learned from technical college and then Jr. College, and I still get criticized though not lately. I have to look up.
Jeff0811 over 6 years ago
Ok, turns out my guess was wrong. I guessed relative would be a sentence where something is better or worse than another, as in “My nuclear button is bigger than your nuclear button.” But I was wrong. The definition is as follows:
Relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who*, that, which, whose, where, when. They are most often used to define or identify the noun that precedes them. For example, the soup that is hot, the person who is old, etc..
harebell over 6 years ago
Even when I was teaching languages eons ago, they weren’t teaching indirect object in elementary school, never mind relative clause. Made it difficult for a German teacher to get case endings across.