{"product_id":"9780998746555","title":"The English Sentence Up Close","description":"The enlightened notion of displaying the decomposed elements of a sentence pictorially has had a long history in the U.S. The pedagogical idea was developed by Stephen Watkins Clark in his 1847 book with the mouthful-of-a-title A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases \u0026amp; Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices and Their Various Relationships to Each\u003cp\u003eAnother - a true sentence diagramming challenge!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClark's scheme of deploying the parts of a sentence into stacked and adjacent cartoon-like balloons or bubbles was improved upon in Higher Lessons in English Grammar, (first edition 1877) by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Their \"geometry of grammar\" - as it has been called - is predicated on the idea that students would better learn how to structure sentences if they could see them drawn as linear graphic structures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Cheshire Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49879003332848,"sku":"9780998746555","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780998746555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}