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

Sentence diagramming was once a widespread technique ... But for the kids who loved it, it made language into an orderly puzzle, complicated but solvable, where words clicked into interlocking ...

There are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator.

The film follows a young student named Jimmy as he learns about sentences in school. Through various examples, he discovers the difference between telling sentences, which end with a period ...

Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee is known for his attention to language. The Wall Street Journal's Ben Zimmer describes how Neil Gorsuch once used a sentence diagram to write his judicial opinion.

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor. When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence ...

Sentence diagramming was once a widespread technique ... But for the kids who loved it, it made language into an orderly puzzle, complicated but solvable, where words clicked into interlocking ...

"It's a fairly simple idea," says Kitty Burns Florey, the author of Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. "I like to call it a picture of language.

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