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 out of favor. Florey talks with Scott Simon about the book.
When I was in elementary school we spent a lot of time diagramming sentences and parsing and I excelled at it. I still remember this (unflattering) little rhyme:
Marilyn, Marilyn, common noun
Parse her up, parse her down
Neuter gender, hopeless case, object of a monkey's face
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