In a message dated 7/27/2006 3:17:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: different between the word classes of ATEG and Parts of Speech of history and the rest of the world. Phil, Chiming in from the trenches of middle school, I think you underestimate students. I was forced to teach grammar from Elements of Writing; if you don't know it, think Warriners. As I taught it, I constantly told them that this or that term was a bit outdated and was now called whatever. I also told them that they would wow their high school and college teachers if they could remember words like aspect or noun phrases. They used to furiously scribble both terms down; both because I'd talk about it, using words that weren't in the book and because they wanted to appear learned to their future teachers. In fact, I always start 7th grade grammar off with lots of word sorts, so word classes works well. We had fun figuring out pronoun cases by just such a sort. It beats circling endless pronouns and drawing an arrow to their antecedents . . . . ~Gretchen 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/