“When I was in school,” he or she would say, looking miffed, “they taught us how to diagram sentences. Why don’t they teach kids how to diagram sentences anymore?” I was on the spot.

If all schools, public and private, brought back diagramming sentences, I think we'd see much better writing skills coming from students. Unfortunately, there are probably a lot of teachers who ...

I know that sentence diagraming still has its place in the classroom as well. Two of my children have had teachers who showed them how to diagram sentences, and both have found it useful in ...

When we first learned how to diagram sentences back in middle school, it was a total pain in the ass. The exercise was complicated and seemingly superfluous. How useful was scrawling a preposition ...

Anyone who believes diagramming sentences will make students better writers needs to look at history, writes Edgar H. Schuster, author and English teacher.