Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
For most people reading this, diagramming sentences belongs to a time niche located somewhere between cave painting and school prayer; but for many baby boomers, creating grammar trees formed the firm foundation of their language learning. Veteran professional copy editor Kitty Burn Florey thinks...
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For most people reading this, diagramming sentences belongs to a time niche located somewhere between cave painting and school prayer; but for many baby boomers, creating grammar trees formed the firm foundation of their language learning. Veteran professional copy editor Kitty Burn Florey thinks that diagramming is a lost skill, "a bit like art [and] a bit like mathematics," that deserves to be revived. Whether you read Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog as fond nostalgia or remedial English, you will enjoy this book. Now diagram this paragraph!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156034432 (0156034433)
ASIN: 156034433
Publish date: November 5th 2007
Publisher: Harvest Books
Pages no: 150
Edition language: English
I wish there had been more about the actual process of diagramming a sentence, but the bits about other writers was awesome. It's actually a nice little book about grammar.
This was a fun and fluffy book - part memoir, part history, part art. It talks about the author's experience diagramming sentences (which she considered a fun part of the school day) and her job as an editor. She talks about the history of sentence diagramming and what some writers (I can only remem...
Diagramming sentences was an epiphany for me in grade school. I have a distinct recollection of the time when diagramming was first explained to me, and my thinking to myself, "Oh, so this is what they've been trying to teach us about grammar!" Today I'm totally confounded as to why this teaching ...
Don't expect to learn how to diagram sentences. A quick (very), fun, engaging book. Well worth the couple of hours it will take you to read it.
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