![]() ![]() and what diagrams of sentences by Hemingway, Welty, Proust, Kerouac and other famous writers reveal about them.įlorey also offers up her own common-sense approach to learning and using good grammar. Sister Bernadette's barking dog the quirky history and lost art of diagramming sentences by Kitty Burns Florey 5. ![]() ![]() the inferior "balloon diagram" predecessor. Now, in this illustrated personal history that any language lover will adore, Kitty Burns Florey explores the rise and fall of sentence diagramming, including its invention by a mustachioed man named Brainerd "Brainy" Kellogg and his wealthy accomplice Alonzo Reed. ![]() But are we that much worse for not knowing the word-mapping method? Once wildly popular in grammar schools across the country, sentence diagramming has fallen out of fashion. Now a veteran copyeditor, Florey studies the practice in a funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities-from its birth at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, to a consideration of how it works, to a revealing look at some of literature's most famous sentences in diagram. Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls "Kitty Burns Florey seems to write from a great wellspring of inner calm that derives from a gleeful appreciation of life's smallest details." ![]()
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