When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

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 notebooks ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. All right, class. Settle down now. Stop fidgeting. Sit up straight, eyes forward, all eyes on the blackboard. Today we're going to diagram ...

The case of an educator accused of stalking her ex-boyfriend in Ohio devolved into a cascade of arguments and outbursts in court after the defense team displayed their shock over the judge's ...

I don’t know why the Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch diagrammed part of a sentence in one of his legal opinions. Following the Reed-Kellogg norms that Mark Liberman of Language Log once ...

A Frederick dentist is expected to return to his practice after serving a jail sentence, according to his office. Dr. Brian Motz, 45, who lives near Myersville, began serving his 90-day jail sentence ...

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 Ancient ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld Martez Abram's death sentence for the 2019 Southaven Walmart murders. Abram's appeal argued irrelevant evidence, including a store fire he set, was used in his ...

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor. When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming ...