There are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator. The ...

The following are sixth grade-level sentences waiting to be dissected and diagrammed. “Both Tayler and Megan visited their friend in Dallas, Texas, during the summer.” “Wow, that is a really big ...

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...