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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey

Author:Kitty Burns Florey [Florey, Kitty Burns] , Date: March 5, 2020 ,Views: 240

Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey

Author:Kitty Burns Florey [Florey, Kitty Burns]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Writing, Reference, History
ISBN: 9781612194028
Google: QYllAwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00I75EVHS
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Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2006-09-30T23:00:00+00:00


There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now.

In Paris in the 1880s, Marcel Proust was spared diagramming at the Lycée Condorcet. Would a Sister B in his early life have simplified what developed into his famously complex sentence structures? Forced to diagram those baggy monsters at the blackboard, would young Marcel have slimmed them down? Proust is even more famous than James for long sentences32, but in fact, he was equally capable of short, pithy ones. A la Recherche de Temps Perdu begins très simplement. The first sentence of Swann’s Way (the Scott Moncrieff translation) is:



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