Say “sentence diagramming” to people of a certain age, and you get reactions ranging from, “Oh, I was really good at that in eighth grade,” to “Mrs. Green made us diagram The Rime of the ...

In her small classroom at Gaithersburg High School, English teacher Robyn Jackson draws a complicated pattern of horizontal and diagonal lines on the blackboard. Her students bend over their ...

When you move “quickly” to another position in the sentence, it can seem to suggest the watching was quick, not the running. That’s nonsense. But adverbs don’t always modify verbs.

adverb or adjective phrase? Nominative or objective? Until finally I could do it. Until finally, I could keep up with all the kids who had been standing at the chalkboard diagramming sentences for ...

Sentence diagramming was once a widespread technique for teaching kids how to analyze the structure of a sentence. If you had to do it in school, you either loved it or you hated it. Most kids ...

"Nicely" is the adverb here as it describes how the Gorilla Monster is playing with the train. He quickly ate his breakfast. In the sentence above, the adverb 'quickly' appears before the verb 'ate'.

The recently revised Standards of Learning of the Commonwealth of Virginia consider sentence diagramming an “essential skill” and mandate that it be taught in grades 6-8. Frankly, if English ...

So it makes sense that the busy infographic-makers at Pop Chart Lab would be beguiled by sentence diagramming, which does the same thing but for grammar. “We’re drawn to the idea that breaking ...

"Nicely" is the adverb here as it describes how the Gorilla Monster is playing with the train. He quickly ate his breakfast. In the sentence above, the adverb 'quickly' appears before the verb 'ate'.