Daniel Willingham sent a tweet this morning about a site called FoxType Sentence Tree that would automatically diagram sentences.

I guess if you’re really into grammar – as fan who is proficient in English or as an advanced English Language Learner who thinks it could be helpful – it’s a site to bookmark. For someone who is definitely not into sentence diagramming, I nevertheless thought it was pretty cool and found it to be very accurate the several times I tried it out:

diagram

I also noticed the site had a number of other features, and some of them seemed particularly interesting to me.

One was a visual thesaurus. It seemed a little less “busy” than others I have on The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners list, but I have to say that in testing it out not all of the displays looked as attractive or as accurate as this one:

happiness

They also have a text editor that seems to provide decent feedback on writing that’s submitted, and I’m adding that resource to The Best Online Tools That Can Help Students Write An Essay:

foxtype

You get to use all the tools for free during an extended period, and then they just ask you to pay what you think it’s worth.

All in all, it’s a very intriguing site.