"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.

Kitty Burns Florey explores a lost art in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog, subtitled "The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences." Once used to teach grammar, the practice has fallen ...

Kitty Burns Florey explores a lost art in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog, subtitled "The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences." Once used to teach grammar, the practice has fallen ...

Kitty Burns Florey explores a lost art in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog, subtitled "The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences." Once used to teach grammar, the practice has fallen ...

Diagramming Sentences Kitty Burns Florey explores a lost art in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog, ... Diagramming is just about taking a simple sentence - and my perennial example is the dog barked ...

It’s no wonder that sentence diagrams have made their way into art. Here are 6 creative uses of sentence diagramming. 1. Our Own Effort (Proust) Click to enlarge.

For a long time, sentence diagramming flourished throughout the American school system, and, despite being condemned as a useless waste of time in the 1970s, it still persists in many schools ...

For example, a series of short simple sentences used together may be used to create tension, as in this extract: 'We rounded the corner. He was there. We stood in awe at the sight.' ...

I read an article last month about the lost art of diagramming sentences, a once-required skill that many American children had to master if they wanted to pass English back in the mid-20th century.

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 'dog' on the left side of the line and 'barked' on the ...

"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.