Sparkle's English lesson today was about subject-verb disagreement. Her textbook says that when a subject and verb disagree, that breaks the sentence. Sparkle wondered why the textbook spent so much time on such a simple concept. We discussed it, and Sparkle came up with this simile:
Breaking a sentence is like breaking a porcelain dish by dropping it.
I love this analogy. Carrying a porcelain dish requires no more skill than carrying a plastic dish. However, dropping a porcelain dish has disastrous results, so we caution our children much more when they handle porcelain. Similarly, it doesn't take much skill in having subjects and verbs agree, yet the disaster to the sentence when they disagree is so great that the textbook spends extra pages on this subject.
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