Sister Bernadette's barking dog : the quirky history and lost art of diagramming sentences
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Hoboken, N.J. : Melville House, ©2006.
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Book
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154 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
Hoboken, N.J. : Melville House, ©2006.
Language
English
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Once wildly popular and used by teachers across America to teach grammar, sentence diagramming is now a lost art to most people. But from the moment she encountered it in the seventh-grade classroom of Sister Bernadette, Kitty Burns Florey was fascinated by the bizarre method of mapping the words in a sentence. Now a veteran copyeditor, Florey studies the practice in a funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities--from its birth at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, to a consideration of how it works, to a revealing look at some of literature's most famous sentences in diagram. Along the way, Florey explores the importance of good grammar and answers some of language lovers' most pressing questions: Can knowing how to diagram a sentence make your life better? And what's Gertrude Stein got to do with any of it?--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Florey, K. B. (2006). Sister Bernadette's barking dog: the quirky history and lost art of diagramming sentences . Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Florey, Kitty Burns. 2006. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Florey, Kitty Burns. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences Melville House, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Florey, Kitty Burns. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences Melville House, 2006.
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