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 ...

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

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.… ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

Although I do not, at this time, do as much sentence diagramming as I would like, my former students are well-acquainted with the technique.

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

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 ...