Huh.....

Sentence Structure

I've come to realize, most recently, that paying attention to the sentence diagramming lesson, given in my high school English class, would have been very helpful in not only English - but Spanish as well.

I'm sure I was rolled up in a joint somewhere during that lesson in high school. I faintly remember the teacher writing sentences on the board and then drawing all kinds of lines in and around them. Using terms like "Pronoun" and "adverb". Or even "possessive noun" and "past participle".... What EVER -- I did not pay attention and now it is so hurting. (Past participle? Nothing should be named that.)

Right now in Spanish we're learning Reflexive Verbs....or something along those lines.. and I gotta tell ya -- I am CON_FUSED! I know nothing about passive aggressive pronouns, or whatever they're called. Those language structure words confuse me alone, much less their meaning, or heaven forbid where they actually fit in a sentence!!

We're also going from conjugating verbs to conjugating verbs that change spelling mid-conjugation. So I'm learning new vocab, unreasonable spelling, and post partum pronouns...will I ever pass all 4 semesters of Spanish?

My summer semester is a condensed one. 8 weeks. I'll be taking 9 hours of spanish a week. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 6pm until 9:10pm. Holy Shit. My brain might really explode. I can't afford to take the summer off though -- if I loose my Spanish I'll have to start over and I have to have 4 semesters to get in to the teaching program! Sheesh!!

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 3:00 PM