Ed Schuster says that virtually all schools teach grammar, starting in the first grade. Perhaps I should rephrase my question. I know that most teachers talk about parts of speech. I guess what I am looking for are schools in which children do a lot of sentence diagramming and get into grammar in some depth. I always remember visiting a fifth grade class at the Brookfield Academy outside of Milwaukee. Children play a game in which they realize abstract diagrams with "gross sentences." As a test I asked for an example of a gross linking sentence whose subject was a gerund with a direct object. Virtually every hand in the class shot up. The first example: "Spewing chunks is unpleasant." What I am looking for is schools that attack grammar in that way. Are Brookfield fifth-graders are really typical of students nationwide? On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Edgar Schuster wrote: > Frankly, it would be harder to find elementary schools that DIDN'T teach the > parts of speech. And why start at 3rd grade? They start in first. > > 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/