It's the same concept as diagramming but in a way that is more fun and easier for students to grasp. The students will take a sentence fragment, and connect it with another, using conjunctions.

There are plenty of people out there—not only English teachers but also amateur language buffs like me—who believe that diagramming a sentence provides insight into the mind of its perpetrator ...

Burns Florey and other experts trace the origin of diagramming sentences back to 1877 and two professors at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In their book, Higher Lessons in English, Alonzo Reed and ...

If you want to be challenged, try diagramming some Hemingway, Steinbeck or sixth grade-level sentences.

If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long -- and controversial -- history in U.S. schools.

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor.