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 > ><<< [log in to unmask] 12/ 7 8:54p >>> >Hi PH: >I'd love to know more about your 24 sentence patterns. >Amy B > >To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web >interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >and select "Join or leave the list" > >Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > >To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html >and select "Join or leave the list" > >Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ > To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/