Say “sentence diagramming” to people of a certain age, and you get reactions ranging from, “Oh, I was really good at that in eighth grade,” to “Mrs. Green made us diagram The Rime of the ...

In educational terms, Jackson, 30, is as daring as the scientists who revived the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park." She is diagramming sentences, a method for teaching grammar that the National ...

But adverbs don’t always modify verbs. Sometimes they modify whole sentences. And those adverbs give you a lot more choice about where to put them. “Soon” is one such adverb.

I read an article last month about the lost art of diagramming sentences, a once-required skill that many American children had to master if they wanted to pass English back in the mid-20th century.

It’s no wonder that sentence diagrams have made their way into art. Here are 6 creative uses of sentence diagramming. 1. Our Own Effort (Proust) Click to enlarge.

In the sentence above, the adverb 'quickly' appears before the verb 'ate'. However, this sentence could be rewritten with the adverb after the verb. He ate his breakfast quickly.

Anyone who believes diagramming sentences will make students better writers needs to look at history, writes Edgar H. Schuster, author and English teacher. No, Virginia, Diagramming Will Not ...

Diagramming means breaking a sentence into pieces, placing its main noun and main verb on a horizontal line and attaching the adjectives, adverbs and other parts of speech that modify them with ...