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

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 ...

Forget politics. Anyone who’s interested in clarity should study this post on Slate.com by author Kitty Burns Florey: “Diagramming Sarah: Can Palin’s sentences stand up to a grammarian ...

You can diagram sentences from now to Tuesday and it really isn’t going to inform composing. Children should learn [the parts of speech], but they should learn them embedded in writing instruction.

I hate the term “diagramming sentences.” I hated diagramming sentences. I forgot all about it since it's been so many years since I was required to do it.

And now that I have a basic grasp of diagramming sentences and know where to find more information, I can already tell I’ve saved myself quite a few gray hairs.

If all schools, public and private, brought back diagramming sentences, I think we'd see much better writing skills coming from students. Unfortunately, there are probably a lot of teachers who ...

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

For the pure geek of it, I challenged you to diagram a sentence from Mississippi State Senator Hob Bryan.

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