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 ...

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

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 ...

The Supreme Court nominee’s much-lauded sentence diagram was sloppy, says Lucy Ferriss. So let’s not judge him on that.

When I was an eighth-grader I found diagramming to be fun, much like working a crossword puzzle. Coincidentally, the same edition of The Post featured a letter from a high school football coach ...

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

My conclusions: 1) The art of diagramming sentences should be revived, and 2) Congress should focus more on clear drafting.

If you want to be challenged, try diagramming some Hemingway, Steinbeck or sixth grade-level sentences.

According to the letter by Carl W. Lehne of Florissant, "Meaning gets lost in cartoon about sentence diagramming" (Jan. 29), the art of correct English and grammar as well as ...

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 ...

Parsing the statements of politicians has never been an easy task. But diagramming their sentences? Well, Slate takes up the challenge, diagramming the sentences of Sarah Palin.

Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee is known for his attention to language. The Wall Street Journal's Ben Zimmer describes how Neil Gorsuch once used a sentence diagram to write his judicial opinion.