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 ...

Jovin says she learned sentence diagramming the year the Pink Floyd song came out, which was 1979. According to Jovin's posts, diagramming helps you understand how sentences are built and why ...

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

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

Pop Chart Lab gets literary for its latest infographic masterpiece: a schoolhouse-friendly poster of old-school sentence diagramming.

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.

Nevertheless, diagramming sentences is still taught — you can find it in textbooks and see it in lesson plans. My question is, why? Burns Florey says it might still be a good tool for some students.