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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey (2007, Paperback, Reprint) 
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey (2007, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey (2007, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Kitty Burns Florey
Publisher: Harvest Books
Publication Date: 2007-11-05
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0156034433
ISBN-13: 9780156034432
Product ID: EPID59097365
Description: After its invention in 1877, diagramming sentences became a staple of English classes throughout America, touted as a supposed remedy for sloppy grammar and mangled syntax. The practice thrived well into the 1950s, lost popularity in the...
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Synopsis
After its invention in 1877, diagramming sentences became a staple of English classes throughout America, touted as a supposed remedy for sloppy grammar and mangled syntax. The practice thrived well into the 1950s, lost popularity in the 1960s, and by the 21st century has become (with the exception of a few pockets of devotees) an arcane endeavor. Copy editor and novelist Kitty Burns Florey learned sentence diagramming from her sixth grade teacher, Sister Bernadette, and though she does not necessarily believe that diagramming helps teach grammar, she finds anachronistic delight in a well-diagrammed sentence, an aesthetic pleasure from the mapping of language. In SISTER BERNADETTE'S BARKING DOG, Florey's central theme is ostensibly "the quirky history and lost art of diagramming sentences," but like the multitude of branching lines in a diagrammed sentence her book splits off into a multitude of topics and tangents: the etymological connection between "grammar" and "glamour"; the battle of the prescriptivists (determined to preserve the supposed integrity of English at all costs) and the descriptivists (who believe "alright" is all right); Gertrude Stein's surprising love of diagramming; the proper use of the expression "the lion's share"; Florey's own philosophy of language, which she describes as "linguistic agnosticism"; and a discussion of the perfectly rational purposes of such vulgarities as "ain't" and "youse." Throughout this slim, elegant book, Florey's relationship with language is as charming and witty as one between two charismatic characters in a novel. Her footnotes and asides are pitch-perfect, and the ivy-like illustrations of diagrammed sentences that creep across the pages seem like the elaborate rules of a particularly clever and tricky game--which is exactly what they are.

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Publication Date:2007-11-05
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:150 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:7.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
An entertaining and informative study of the origins and evolution of the sentence-diagramming phenomenon examines what diagrams of famed writers' sentences reveal about them and their works and offers the author's personal approach to learning and using good grammar. Reprint.

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