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." ...

The literal “diagram” comes from the Latin diagramma (design, layout), and this from ... an evolution that can be found in many languages, such as Modern Greek. This new word comes from ...

a Microsoft Visio-style diagramming app that’s used for wireframing, UI prototyping, and the like; and Lucidpress, a drag-and-drop design program for creating print and digital publications.

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 ...

"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.