Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.

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 ...

Lucy Ferriss accepts Slate’s challenge to diagram a sentence uttered by the Donald — and is surprised by what she learns.

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 ...

Anyone who believes diagramming sentences will make students better writers needs to look at history, writes Edgar H. Schuster, author and English teacher.

Burns Florey and other experts trace the origin of diagramming sentences back to 1877 and two professors at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In their book, Higher Lessons in English, Alonzo Reed and ...

If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long -- and controversial -- history in U.S. schools.