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by bitwize 1203 days ago
> Definitely a pain if you're trying to teach it in a sentence-diagramming kind of way.

I can definitely see the first sentence, alone, serving as an extra credit question on a high schooler's English test: Diagram this sentence!

But that's a high schooler from my era (first half of the 90s). Much less seems to be expected of today's high schoolers.