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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
By Kitty Burns Florey
Melville House, 160 pages, $19.95
Diagramming sentences may have gone the way of the slide ruler, but this charming little book makes deconstruction of language fun. In this illustrated personal history, the author, a long-time copy editor, explores the birth and death of language mapping. In this handsome book, subjects, predicates, articles, gerunds and participles dance across the page, bringing delight to those who venture into the party.