Maybe this won't be so bad after all...

after spending some hours struggling with parts of speech last night (for english... i think i'd be happier if it were French!), decided i hated grammar and was going to loathe english this semester. However, if i'm going to loathe it then i'm damn well going to UNDERSTAND it so i can loathe it properly. So i attacked 'groups and phrases' this afternoon. Am forced to admit that it's kinda cool. I mean, look at this:

'He lowered it down in a satchel at the end of a rope'. That's got three prepositions in it.
There's the prepositional phrase 'in a satchel at the end of a rope', which describes how he lowered it down. So it's an adverbial prepositional phrase.
Then there's the nominal group 'a satchel at the end of a rope', in which the prepositional phrase 'at the end of a rope' works like an adjective.
Then there's the nominal group 'the end of a rope', in which there's another prepositional phrase 'of a rope', which contains another nominal group, 'a rope'.

its like maths with no numbers in it whatsoever (the best kind of maths, imho). (in (a satchel (at (the end (of (a rope)))))) = actually, what DOES it equal? its not a whole clause yet... still. you get the idea. (the idea being, amy's gone off the deep end finaly... :P)

Once again, random door knocking-guys...

random guys knocking on my door once again *rolls eyes*. Trying te sell me Drews Informal tickets, laughing at my 'sometimes you're the windsheild, sometime's your the bug' sign... bah. and utterly incapable of comprehending my disinterest in said tickets.

there is not enough chocolate in this world, you know that? And why do people have to ruin good woolies mud cake by putting foul woolies caramel in it?

Tock, gorgeous creature that she is, has put up signs on her door for Armadillo Headquarters Status. About time, too. No idea how she gets anything done with us floating in and out all the time. What's the betting the Status stays at 'Asylum Open, Welcome to the Party', though?
Has serious ownership issues, that girl. Its lucky for her we don't MIND being possessed :P In fact if twenty-four hours goes past and you haven't been hugattacked with firm announcements of 'mine! mine!' then you KNOW you're in trouble. Reminds me of Abby, actually, but in the best possible way (and yes, the best possibly way to remind me of Abby is a pretty good way. :P Its just that mostly Abby doesn't remind me of her in said good way.)

Right. Back to 'subject and predicate', which is somewhat less interesting than prepositional phrases, i must say.