A practical blend of the most useful elements of traditional, structural, and transformational grammar, the text emphasizes whole structures, most specifically the ten basic sentence patterns introduced in Chapter 2. Both students and teachers appreciate the self-teaching quality that incremental exercises provide throughout the chapters, with answers at the end of the book. Appropriate Courses Upper division course in Advanced Grammar usually required of future elementary and secondary school teachers. Features Organization is from whole to part. After an opening chapter that touches on the history of classroom grammar and other language issues, Chapter 2 presents ten basic sentence patterns, with their various slots described according to both form and function.
Instruction is clear and accessible.
Sentence expansions in Chapters 3-9 provide readers with a structure, a framework, on which to organize the new concepts learned. Useful apparatus found in each chapter. Each chapter includes Questions for Discussion, Investigating Language, and Classroom Applications. All provide further material for class discussions. Enhanced descriptions of active and passive verb strings are found in Chapter 3.