Sponsor Message I asked her to show me, and for an example she used the first sentence she recalls diagramming: "The dog barked." "By drawing a line and writing 'dog' on the left side of the line ...

Sentence diagramming is the long division of English. It involves a bewildering array of lines and diagonal branches. It is loathed as an elementary school chore. And it is presumed to be obsolete.

Here’s an example, applied to a typically worthy sentence (the diagram comes courtesy of Google Books): For a long time, sentence diagramming flourished throughout the American school system ...

Sentence diagramming was once a widespread technique for teaching kids how to analyze the structure of a sentence. If you had to do it in school, you either loved it or you hated it. Most kids ...

Be careful though - if you only ever use simple sentences in your writing you don’t add much detail, so your reader could lose interest. Compound ... For example: George wanted to stay outside ...

Nobody can top my sentences. Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images At the Slate Political Gabfest's live D.C. show this week, Emily, David, and John tried to diagram a sentence uttered in Sun City ...

Cancel anytime. According to the letter by Carl W. Lehne of Florissant, "Meaning gets lost in cartoon about sentence diagramming" (Jan. 29), the art of correct English and grammar as well as ...

It really does draw a picture of what language looks like." I asked her to show me, and for an example she used the first sentence she recalls diagramming: "The dog barked." "By drawing a line and ...