BURNS FLOREY: Diagramming is just about taking a simple sentence - and my perennial example is the dog barked - and putting the words that comprise a sentence on a series of lines that indicate ...

"It's a fairly simple idea," says Kitty Burns ... Sponsor Message I asked her to show me, and for an example she used the first sentence she recalls diagramming: "The dog barked." ...

In each of the examples there is just one main verb and one idea. This is the simplest type of sentence and is usually very easy to understand. Short simple sentences are frequently used to offer ...

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 ...

Clark’s original sentence-diagramming format used circles and bubbles instead of lines. His examples came from classic literature: “Time slept on flowers, and lent his glass to Hope.” ...

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 ...

Simple sentences are important ... because they need the main part of the sentence to make sense. They don’t make complete sense on their own. For example: George wanted to stay outside despite ...

"It's a fairly simple idea," says Kitty Burns ... 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 ...