Martha,
  I can't wait for your book to be released. In Japan the long summer 
vacation ends at the end of August and I will be introducing to my 
students sentence patterns and diagrams adapted from UEG. I have canvassed 
several teacher/education/linguistic forums online in Japan but can find 
nobody who is teaching grammar along these lines. Similarly there is 
nobody apparently teaching grammar in schools in the functional 
grammar/Halliday perspective. Discussion of grammar seems to be limited to 
scholarly exchange of views on esoteric subjects.(I share the same sense 
of trepidation as Trudy when contacting these lofty venues - I feel like a 
midget raching for the shelf)
 U.S.A. supplies most of the English teachers here in Japan and I guess 
they were influenced by the anti-grammar movement - I hear was prevalent 
in their schooldays. Please let me know if I can trial any of your work in 
my Japanese classes.
     John

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