We did break sentences down into the participle and gerund etc. in my high school (late 80's early 90's) but other than stuff like that the class also stuck to mostly the normal stuff i.e. nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives etc. I never could get the hang of figuring out the participle and gerund or what else was involved much less where it went on the diagram. I learned more about sentence structure from reading than from school.
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