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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog

by Kitty Burns Florey
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“Kitty Burns Florey seems to write from a great wellspring of inner calm that derives from a gleeful appreciation of life's smallest details.”
—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

Once wildly popular in grammar schools across the country, sentence diagramming has fallen out of fashion. But are we that much worse for not knowing the word-mapping method?

Now, in this illustrated personal history that any language lover will adore, 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 offers up her own common-sense approach to learning and using good grammar. And...

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  • Release date

    June 3, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781612194028

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781612194028
      • File size: 5193 KB

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  • Languages

    • English

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  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English