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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (Reprint Edition) by Kitty Burns Florey, Becky Kraemer (Other Primary Creator) Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-15-603443-3 / 0156034433 ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603443-2 / 9780156034432 In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: "It was a bit like art, a bit like mathematics. It was a picture of language. I was hooked." Now, in this offbeat history, Flore |