Word pictures — literally

Care to brush up on your grammar chops? Here’s a tool that will diagram your sentences for you, possibly revealing that you (like most of us) don’t really know all that much about grammar.

I’m not sure this app will tell you when you’ve done something wrong, but it sure does make pretty pictures, doesn’t it? Paste in a sentence by Proust and you could cover a whole wall!

They also offer a visual thesaurus.

Just another installment in my ongoing series, “Fun With Things That Used To Torture You In School.”

Next up: “Cooking With Calculus.”

5 comments on “Word pictures — literally”

Phillip McCollum
May 27, 2016

Very cool. I like the “Politeness” tool as well. Need to make that mandatory in the office….

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- Kevin Brennan
  May 27, 2016
  
  I hadn’t tried the Politeness thing earlier. It seems pretty sensitive to me! Told me it was impolite to write in the first person …
  
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1WriteWay
May 31, 2016

I like the idea of “There” as an “Existential there” … as there’s no there there?

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- Kevin Brennan
  May 31, 2016
  
  If there’s no there here, then where the hell am I?!
  
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  - 1WriteWay
    May 31, 2016
    
    Good question 😉