Ellen's new book, Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian, is available through HarperCollins at [ Ссылка ] and also through Hachette UK at [ Ссылка ]. In the meantime, you can view this video to learn the basics of sentence diagramming, an instructional tool once popular in elementary and junior high school English classes. Today it lives on mostly in the chalk-dust memories of people who have not been in a classroom for at least a few decades. Its utility cannot be guaranteed; however, it is fun. There is also accompanying talk of other topics in grammar: nouns, pronouns, subjects, verbs, direct objects, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases!
