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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog

The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

ISBN-13: 9781933633107

Contributor(s): Kitty Burns Florey

Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Melville House Publishing

Publication Date: 09-04-2009

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£16.99

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About the book

In this illustrated personal history, Kitty Burns Florey explores the rise and fall of sentence diagramming, including its invention by a mustachioed man named Brainerd Brainy' Kellogg and his wealthy accomplice Alonzo Reed - the inferior 'balloon diagram' predecessor - and what diagrams of sentences by Hemingway, Welty, Proust, Kerouac and other famous writers reveal about them. Florey also answers some of literature's most pressing questions: Was Mark Twain or James Fenimore Cooper a better grammarian? What are the silliest grammar rules?'