Dolly Winger asks:
>This sentence appears in our school newsletter this week:
 
>*The use of technology is not an addition to the curriculum, it is a
> change in how curriculum is delivered. *
 
>Could you explain why this sentence
>and others like it are, evidently, legitimate sentences rather than
>examples of run on sentences.
 
Sentences in writing can be 'defined' as beginning with capital a letter
and ending with .?! . If we compare written sentences with oral
sentences (sentences proper, as it were), we find that many written
sentences do not correspond to oral sentences. (An example from another
grammatical level, the word level: 'cannot' is one written word, but two
words in oral language.)
 
The above written sentence is probably a 'paragraph', (orally)
grammatically speaking.
 
I have mentioned paragraph grammar before and that one paragraph
structure is
 
T    topic
D    description
A    antithesis
C    conclusion
 
T    The use of technology is not an addition to the curriculum,
C    it is a change in how curriculum is delivered.
 
What answer do others have?
 
Burkhard Leuschner