"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you can diagram this simple sentence, if you can diagram this complex sentence, if you can diagram this compound/complex sentence, the sisters told me, speaking proper English will come next.

"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 ...