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This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams
A Journey Through the Sharpest, Strangest, and Most Stirring Lines Ever Constructed
Contributors
By Man Martin
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- May 12, 2026
- Page Count
- 128 pages
- Publisher
- Running Press Adult
- ISBN-13
- 9798894142081
Price
$18.00Price
$24.00 CADFormat
Format:
- Hardcover $18.00 $24.00 CAD
- ebook $11.99 $15.99 CAD
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Sentence diagramming might sound like something from a fussy grammar assignment, but you’ll find no red pens here. Instead, this book is a visual celebration of the relationships between words. This witty collection features dozens of unforgettable one-liners, from blockbuster films and famous speeches to Shakespearean zingers, classic novels, and philosophical musings.
Each diagram turns a familiar sentence into a little work of visual art by mapping out the nouns, verbs, and clauses to reveal unexpected symmetry and glorious grammatical chaos. Some quotes, like Melville’s “Call me Ishmael,” land like a javelin. Others spiral upward like a tower of tinker toys held together with linguistic duct tape. If you love the inner workings of language, you’ll find joy (and a few laughs) in seeing well-known lines stripped down and displayed across the page in all their syntactic glory.
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