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It was a picture of language. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar. I was hooked." Now, in this offbeat history, Florey explores the sentence-diagramming phenomenon, including its humble roots at the Brooklyn Polytechnic, its "balloon diagram" predecessor, and what diagrams of f

• Title : Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
• Author : Kitty Burns Florey
• Rating : 4.79 (379 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-12-12
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 200 Pages
• Asin : 1933633107
• Language : English

It was a picture of language. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar. I was hooked." Now, in this offbeat history, 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. 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.

. Charming, fun, and instructive, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog will be treasured by all kinds of readers, from grumpy grammarians and crossword-puzzle aficionados to students of literature and lovers of lan

All will agree Florey’s passion is infectious and entertaining."—June Casagrande, author of Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies. "Kitty Burns Florey seems to write from a great wellspring of inner calm that derives from a gleeful appreciation of life’s smallest details."—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls"This book is not a primer; it’s a prize."—Robert Hartwell Fiske, author of The Dictionary of Disagreeable English"A wistful, charming and funny ode to a nearly lost art. Those who don’t will wonder what fun they missed and whether it will be preserved for future generations. Those who remember will cheer

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