In order to diagram sentences, the students were required to parse the sentence into the correct parts of speech.

Our English class frequently will parse certain sentences in a story and discuss why the author included those details.

When you need to determine the meaning of a word, you may need to parse the sentence and look at each part of the sentence.

Periodically, I will parse a sentence in my book if I don’t understand how it relates to the plot.

Sometimes, avid readers will parse a sentence because they want to critically think about the details in the book.