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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

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ISBN-10: 0156034433

ISBN-13: 9780156034432

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kitty Burns Florey, Becky Kraemer

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Description:

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 language. 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. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar. Charming, fun, and instructive, Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog will be treasured by all kinds of…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.13" wide x 8.50" long x 0.46" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

KITTY BURNS FLOREY, a veteran copyeditor, is the author of nine novels and many short stories and essays. A longtime Brooklyn resident, she now divides her time between central Connecticut and upstate New York with her husband, Ron Savage.

Contents
Enter the Dog
Times Change
General Rules
Poetry & Grammar
Youse Ain’T Got no Class
Diagramming Redux
Afterword
Acknowledgments