I've been trying to learn how to do grammar analysis. I've also made it a goal to make my process for grammar analysis. I think I'm ready to do that now. But for now I'll only think about simple sentences (sentences with only one clause).
# Goals:
- Make a process/algorithm for doing grammar analysis for one-clause sentences.
# Action Plan:
- Load the following (keep in mind):
- English Language, Analysis & Grammar
- Learning how to self-evaluate grammar
- Connecting concepts: process guides for my intellectual work and algorithms
- Grammar: analyze "He was eating and talking."
- Write the process incorporating the ideas linked above.
# Work:
So here's my process for grammar analysis of a one-clause sentence.
- Load my latest guides:
- For making blog posts
- For doing grammar analysis
- Outline the sentence with angle brackets, curly brackets, and square brackets as explained in the first link above.
- If the outline is too complex, make additional versions with some details omitted.
- Decide what the main verb(s) is/are. Consider more than one option.
- Make an outline (that can be dropped into MindNode tree-making software) for each option.
- Compare and contrast the options and try to find one that beats the others on all metrics (criticisms) OR two equivalent options.
- Consider the meaning of the sentence.
- Consider which tree is easier to understand.
- If failed to find one option that beats all others or failed to conclude that two options are equivalent, then
- If this is the first time here, then go back to step 2.2 and repeat.
- If this is my second time here, then
- Find other FI people's grammar analyses of the same sentence and compare and contrast their analyses to mine.
- If found any, go back through all the steps from step 2.2 to redo all my thinking, incorporating the new ideas.
- Else, break out of this loop and seek external criticism (showing all the above work).
# Analysis:
I think I made a ton of improvement compared to my previous disorganized process of doing grammar analysis.
# Next steps:
Continue practicing grammar analysis of one-clause sentences, and improving my process with each practice iteration.
No comments:
Post a Comment