In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar
schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method
in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: "It was a bit like art, a
bit like mathematics. It was a picture of language. I was hooked."
Now, in this offbeat history, Florey explores the
sentence-diagramming phenomenon, including its humble roots at the
Brooklyn Polytechnic, its "balloon diagram" predecessor, and what
diagrams of famous writers' sentences reveal about them. Along the
way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and
using good grammar. Charming, fun, and instructive, Sister
Bernadette's Barking Dog will be treasured by all kinds of readers,
from grumpy grammarians and crossword-puzzle aficionados to
students of literature and lovers of language.
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