Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences -- Kitty Burns Florey, Paperback

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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences -- Kitty Burns Florey, PaperbackA 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

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