The English Sentence Up Close
Beaven, Peter / Deliwala, Nikhil
The enlightened notion of displaying the decomposed elements of a sentence pictorially has had a long history in the U.S. The pedagogical idea was developed by Stephen Watkins Clark in his 1847 book with the mouthful-of-a-title A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases & Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices and Their Various Relationships to Each Another ? a true sentence diagramming challenge! Clark?s scheme of deploying the...