Judy,

I'm going to do this, but it'll take me a day or two.  End of
term and all that.
Thanks for your patience.

Herb

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 In my guest
>presentation, the problem led to an interesting and spirited
>discussion of how sentence grammar interacts with rhetorical
>considerations, what linguists would call discourse pragmatics.
>
>I've done summer workshops for middle and high school English
>teachers where we've concentrated specifically on such
>discourse-motivated grammatical alternations.  The discourse
>motivation, the tie-in to rhetoric, gives relevance to building
>the grammatical basis for discussion of sentence structure
>options, and we end up covering quite a lot of grammar.  This
can
>be done in a linguistically and intellectually faithful manner
and
>is generally stimulating to all involved.

Herb, can you give us some specifics? A brief scenario? Outline?
Anecdote?

Thanks!

Judy

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