Martha, I can't wait for your book to be released. In Japan the long summer vacation ends at the end of August and I will be introducing to my students sentence patterns and diagrams adapted from UEG. I have canvassed several teacher/education/linguistic forums online in Japan but can find nobody who is teaching grammar along these lines. Similarly there is nobody apparently teaching grammar in schools in the functional grammar/Halliday perspective. Discussion of grammar seems to be limited to scholarly exchange of views on esoteric subjects.(I share the same sense of trepidation as Trudy when contacting these lofty venues - I feel like a midget raching for the shelf) U.S.A. supplies most of the English teachers here in Japan and I guess they were influenced by the anti-grammar movement - I hear was prevalent in their schooldays. Please let me know if I can trial any of your work in my Japanese classes. John 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/