@article{311565,
      recid = {311565},
      author = {Florey, Kitty Burns.},
      title = {Sister Bernadette's barking dog : the quirky history and  lost art of diagramming sentences /},
      publisher = {Melville House,},
      address = {Hoboken, N.J. :},
      pages = {154 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/311565},
}