{"id":159,"date":"2008-01-22T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/i-love-diagramming-sentences-resources-for-the-rebel"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:08:47","slug":"i-love-diagramming-sentences-resources-for-the-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/i-love-diagramming-sentences-resources-for-the-rebel","title":{"rendered":"I Love Diagramming Sentences &#8211; Resources for the Rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/i_love_diagramming.png\" alt=\"I Love Diagramming Sentences\" width=\"516\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/i_love_diagramming.png 516w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/i_love_diagramming-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/>It&#8217;s true, I love diagramming sentences, and I teach students how to diagram sentences&#8211;which is probably enough to get me kicked out of most professional English teacher organizations&#8211;if I belonged to any (which I don&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>But for you rebels out there who subversively sneak diagramming into your curriculum between studying for state and national tests, here are some resources from the <a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/diagrams\/diagrams.htm\">Diagramming Sentences<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/diagrams\/diagrams.htm\"> page<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/\">Guide to Grammar and Writing<\/a> sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccc.commnet.edu\/capitalFoundation.htm\">Capital Community College Foundation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, this quote by Gertrude Stein: &#8220;I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Second, this <a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/ppt\/diagrams.pps\">PowerPoint presentation on the basics of diagramming<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Third, two pages of examples of basic and advanced diagrams:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/diagrams2\/one_pager1.htm\">Basic diagramming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/diagrams2\/one_pager2.htm\">Advanced diagramming<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fourth, the totally cool diagrams of both the <a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/diagrams2\/pledge.htm\">Pledge of Allegiance<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/grammar.ccc.commnet.edu\/grammar\/diagrams2\/preamble.htm\">Preamble to the U.S. Constitution<\/a>. (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/17\/diagramming-the-prea.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And finally, this tribute to diagramming from <em>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/em>, October 17, 2000:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Joseph R. Mallon Jr. bumps up against a complex problem, he thinks back to a lesson he learned in high school from the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.<\/p>\n<p>The Philadelphia-area school&#8217;s Catholic nuns taught him the art of diagramming a sentence. Once all the parts of speech lined up, Mallon pulled clarity from the chaos. It&#8217;s a process he uses today to tackle tough issues as chief executive and chairman of Measurement Specialties Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sit down quietly. Take (the issue) apart into its component parts. Make sure all the components fit together well. They&#8217;ve got to be well chosen, fit together and make sense. There are few (business) problems that can&#8217;t be solved that way, as dire as it might seem,&#8221; Mallon said. &#8220;Sentence diagramming is one of the best analytical techniques I ever learned.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true, I love diagramming sentences, and I teach students how to diagram sentences&#8211;which is probably enough to get me kicked out of most professional English teacher organizations&#8211;if I belonged to any (which I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[135,150,151,152,149],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar","tag-catholic","tag-gertrude-stein","tag-pledge-of-allegiance","tag-preamble-to-the-us-constitution","tag-sentence-diagramming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/i_love_diagramming.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-2z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}