SenGram - Sentence Diagramming para Android

11 detalles sobre SenGram - Sentence Diagramming

1. This game will be of interest to students of language (including ESL students), lovers of language and grammar, those sitting standardised tests with a grammar component (e.g. SAT, GMAT, NAPLAN) as well as those who are familiar with sentence diagrams and enjoy completing them as puzzles.

2. SenGram is an iPhone and iPad language game which presents pre-prepared sentence diagram puzzles and solutions to those puzzles, for players to solve.

3. This puzzle game tests and improves your ability to take sentences apart, identify the underlying grammatical structure, and reflect that structure on a diagram.

4. The game might be especially useful to those students who are are currently studying a course in which sentence diagramming is used as a teaching tool.

5. Your objective when playing the game will be to place each word in the 'puzzle sentence' in its correct place on the 'sentence diagram'.

6. In our view this style of diagramming offers one of the more enjoyable ways to test and improve your knowledge of grammar, especially if you have a visual mind.

7. I teach Latin and a major difficulty is getting the students to see the structure of sentences.

8. This is great for teaching how to diagram a sentence.

9. The style of diagram adopted in this app is known as the 'Reed Kellogg' style, and there are many websites and books devoted to it.

10. The problem, at least in part, is that they don't (or can't) see structure even in English--no one teaches diagramming any more.

11. In addition, there are further puzzles for purchase within the app in the 'SenGram Store'.