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 ...

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 ...

Diagramming not only helps students understand sentence structure and grammatical rules, but it also illustrates how much precision matters.

Burns Florey and other experts trace the origin of diagramming sentences back to 1877 and two professors at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In their book, Higher Lessons in English, Alonzo Reed and ...

Lucy Ferriss accepts Slate’s challenge to diagram a sentence uttered by the Donald — and is surprised by what she learns.

Kudos to Gaithersburg High School English teacher Robyn Jackson and all of her colleagues for their efforts to teach sentence diagramming ["Putting Grammar Lessons on the Line; Students' Writing ...

Anyone who believes diagramming sentences will make students better writers needs to look at history, writes Edgar H. Schuster, author and English teacher.

23 Sentence Diagrams That Show The Brilliance Of Famous Novels' Opening Lines By Christina Sterbenz Feb 26, 2014, 10:52 AM PT Add us on ...

If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long -- and controversial -- history in U.S. schools.

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.