Lesson 1 | The First Pass: Divide

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What We Learned in This Lesson

1. The Big Idea of Block Diagramming
2. A visualization of how the phrases of a passage fit together grammatically
3. Includes three out of the five passes of Phrasing:
4. Divide the passage into phrases
5. Indent the subordinate phrases
6. Draw arrows to relate the phrases
7. The Nine Types of Phrases
8. Conjunction phrases
9. Participle phrases
10. Infinitive phrases
11. Prepositional phrases
12. Appositional phrases
13. Relative phrases
14. Substantival phrases
15. Genitive phrases
16. Unmarked phrases
17. The First Pass
18. Divide according to English punctuation
19. Look for instances of the nine types of phrases, and divide accordingly
20. You may need to extract some phrases For instance, to keep a subject on the same line as its verb or a verb on the same line as its direct object
21. The Basics of Using the Phrasing Module