Binding: Paperback
Description: A delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians crossword - puzzle aficionados and lovers of language will appreciate this book. In its heyday sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: " It was a bit like art a bit like mathematics. It was a picture of language. I was hooked." Florey explores the sentence - diagramming phenomenon including its humble roots at the Brooklyn Polytechnic its "balloon diagram" predecessor and what diagrams of famous writers sentences reveal about them. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar. Charming fun and instructive Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog will be treasured by all kinds of readers.
Title: Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog The Quirky History And Lost Art Of Diagramming Sentences
Author(s): Florey Kitty Burns
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780156034432
Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/5/2007