Herb, I'm still hoping to hear more about your approach as well.

Has anyone (high school/ post sec'y) tried using Coe's "passage" grammar to
help students design their texts? Does anyone know of any studies based on
Coe's book?

Judy


At 10:33 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I would too.  Simple sentence types tend to correlate closely with
>verb types, at least in a typical Halliday/Quirk sort of analysis.
> I teach eight sentence types.  Morenberg's text teaches six.  The
>older versions of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
>and the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of English both had
>about 50.  Beth Levin's English Verb Classes and Alternations
>focuses on verb pattern rather than sentence type, and she comes
>up with over 300 classes.  24 seems a fairly large number, and I'm
>curious what principles are used to identify them.
>
>Herb Stahlke
>
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>Hi PH:
>I'd love to know more about your 24 sentence patterns.
>Amy B
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