People still diagram sentences? Or has diagramming made a comeback? When
did this come about?
 
Students often ask me if I diagrammed sentences "in the old days" and if I
can show them how it was done. I accommodate them as best I can, although I
last diagrammed a sentence as an English teacher in about 1964--except for
tree diagrams, of course.
 
Bill McCleary
 
William J. McCleary                     Editor: Composition Chronicle
Associate Prof. of English              Viceroy Publications
Coordinator of Secondary English        3247 Bronson Hill Road
SUNY at Cortland                        Livonia, NY 14487
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