English people please help

[jman507]

I grew up in an age when the theory was “Never stifle their creativity!”. Translation: Don’t teach diagramming. (I finally had to learn it in English 10). Don’t teach them handwriting, let them write however they want. (Thank God for typing class; I could never communicate with the world without a keyboard with my crummy writing). Etc, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
Diagramming is a very good idea. (Except I am now too old to remember it…).

Yes, that was a great idea. You need some structure with some creativity, or else it’ll be hard to distinguish from non-sense.