Harrisonburg, Va. * Hooray to Robyn Jackson for teaching sentence diagramming. I learned to diagram sentences way back when. It helped me learn English grammar and also helped when I studied French.

Stop fidgeting. Sit up straight, eyes forward, all eyes on the blackboard. Today we're going to diagram sentences. "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog" is the title of a new book on sentence diagramming.

According to the letter by Carl W. Lehne of Florissant, "Meaning gets lost in cartoon about sentence diagramming" (Jan. 29), the art of correct English and grammar as well as ...

But an NCTE advisory against diagramming and other overt forms of grammar instruction early in the 1970s had a powerful effect, said Edward Cannon, head of the English Department at T.C. Williams ...

The recently revised Standards of Learning of the Commonwealth of Virginia consider sentence diagramming an “essential skill” and mandate that it be taught in grades 6-8. Frankly, if English ...