In 1985, the National Council of Teachers of English declared that "repetitive grammar drills and exercises" — like diagramming sentences — are "a deterrent to the improvement of students ...

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 ...

The Wall Street Journal's Ben Zimmer describes how Neil Gorsuch once used a sentence diagram to write his judicial opinion. Law. Neil Gorsuch Has An Affinity For The English Language.

Anyone who believes diagramming sentences will make students better writers needs to look at history, writes Edgar H. Schuster, author and English teacher. No, Virginia, Diagramming Will Not ...