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

Objectively untrue! Formal grammar lessons, complete with sentence-diagramming exercises, survived in public schools through the end of the 1980s, at least.

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 ...

When we first learned how to diagram sentences back in middle school, it was a total pain in the ass. The exercise was complicated and seemingly superfluous. How useful was scrawling a preposition ...

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

In 1985, the National Council of Teachers of English declared that "repetitive grammar drills and exercises" — like diagramming sentences — are "a deterrent to the improvement of students' speaking ...

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