{"id":1178,"date":"2017-03-30T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-03-08T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:41:31","slug":"a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It’s a fairly simple idea,” says Kitty Burns Florey, the author of\u00a0<em>Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and\u00a0<\/em><em>Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences<\/em>.\u00a0“I like to call it a picture of language. It really does draw a picture of what language looks like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1179\" src=\"http:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gregor2_custom-c8214189bda85b6ce9baafc8dc9f3143bcda6ae3-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gregor2_custom-c8214189bda85b6ce9baafc8dc9f3143bcda6ae3-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gregor2_custom-c8214189bda85b6ce9baafc8dc9f3143bcda6ae3-s800-c85-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gregor2_custom-c8214189bda85b6ce9baafc8dc9f3143bcda6ae3-s800-c85-768x350.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words \u2014 not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Read this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2014\/08\/22\/341898975\/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0fascinating article on NPR.org<\/a>. I’m going to start drawing out my sentences to see if it enhances or expands my ability to understand the “geometry of my grammar”. Think I’ll drink a cup of coffee before commencing this mental endeavor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It’s a fairly simple idea,” says Kitty Burns Florey, the author of\u00a0Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and\u00a0Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.\u00a0“I like to call it a picture of language. It really does draw a picture of what language looks like. When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words \u2014 not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-writing","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/scrabble-e1486694528980.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7C79E-j0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaalpine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}