A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences
- about diagramming sentences
- it’s not used anymore
- can be used for new readers and learners of English to understand the language
- can help improve a person’s English skills by giving them a better understanding of what each word’s role in the sentence is
- not everyone gets it
- not a lot of people know it anymore
- structure sentences better by seeing them “drawn as graphic structures”
- NCTE: it’s “a deterrent to the improvement of students’ speaking and writing.”
- Kitty Burns Florey: “When you diagram a sentence, those things are always in that relation to each other.”
- invented in Brooklyn by two professors at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
One-sentence summary:
Diagramming sentences can help someone improve their English skills. but it is not recognized in the Common Core.
In “A Picture of Language: The fading Art of Diagramming Sentences,” Juana Summers describes the now-forgotten practice of diagramming sentences as a graphic or spatial way to learn the English language.
According to Juana Summers, in “A Picture of Language: The fading Art of Diagramming Sentences,” the now-forgotten practice of diagramming sentences was used as a graphic or spatial way to learn the English language.
