Estimated Social Security Payment Change

[GregLee]

"At your current earnings rate..., if you STOP working and start receiving benefits at age 62, your payment would be about X".

I agree with Texas Proud and Gumby that there is a parsing problem here. The statement could either be:
At your current earnings rate..., if you ((STOP working) and (start receiving benefits at age 62)), your payment would be about X
or
At your current earnings rate..., if you ((STOP working and start receiving benefits) at age 62), your payment would be about X

 

[Rustward]

...(man I wish I could remember the word I am looking for... it is the breakdown of a sentence... help)...

diagramming Fifth grade English, where I went.

 

[rescueme]

diagramming Fifth grade English, where I went.

Yeah, and the "penguins" would slap you (with a ruler) if you did it incorrectly ...

 

[Texas Proud]

Maybe "parse"?

Yes... thanks

 

[W2R]

diagramming Fifth grade English, where I went.

Sixth grade, for me. I loved it. Finally, English made sense to me. I loved the logic in sentence construction that sentence diagrams illustrated so clearly.

Yeah, and the "penguins" would slap you (with a ruler) if you did it incorrectly ...

No nuns at my school, but one of our teachers broke a 12" wooden ruler on one boy's hand in second grade. That takes a lot of muscle! But what an example - - I will never forget it, and was a model student after seeing that happen.

 

[73ss454]

Yup, back in the 40's it was different.