You may have heard of diagramming sentences and thought it sounded like some kind of medieval device designed by English teachers to torture poor, unsuspecting English students. The surprising fact is, diagramming sentences is not torturous. It can actually be kind of fun, and it can certainly help you have a better idea of what to do with your own writing to make it suitable for papers written for those torturous English teachers!
Diagramming is like putting together a puzzle where the words of the sentence are the pieces. There is a place for every word on the diagram, and just like a puzzle, each word only fits correctly in its own place. Each part of speech has a specific place on the diagram.
