I read an article last month about the lost art of diagramming sentences, a once-required skill that many American children had to master if they wanted to pass English back in the mid-20th century.

Learn the differences between simple, compound and complex sentences, to write in more detail.

Here are six creative uses of sentence diagramming. 1. Our own effort (Proust) Artist Nicholas Knight features sentence diagrams in many of his drawings, collages, and wall installations.