Sentence diagramming is the long division of English. It involves a bewildering array of lines and diagonal branches. It is loathed as an elementary school chore. And it is presumed to be obsolete.… ...

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 ...

Diagramming means breaking a sentence into pieces, placing its main noun and main verb on a horizontal line and attaching the adjectives, adverbs and other parts of speech that modify them with ...

A lot of artists have used words in paintings in recent years, but the way Libby Wadsworth uses them is markedly different. She presents words on sentence diagrams that give the words visual struct… ...

Say “sentence diagramming” to people of a certain age, and you get reactions ranging from, “Oh, I was really good at that in eighth grade,” to “Mrs. Green made us diagram The Rime of the ...

The recently revised Standards of Learning of the Commonwealth of Virginia consider sentence diagramming an “essential skill” and mandate that it be taught in grades 6-8. Frankly, if English ...

Dori asks his grammar-loving listeners to help him diagram a perplexing, rambling sentence from Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien.

In educational terms, Jackson, 30, is as daring as the scientists who revived the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park." She is diagramming sentences, a method for teaching grammar that the National ...