Greetings- Today, in my Advanced English Grammar class, I showed Langston Hughes's "Daybreak in Alabama" as an example of a poem with two sentences. I realized while showing the poem that I was not sure how to divide the slots of the first main clause, which is ...I'm gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama.... Shall I think of "I'm gonna write" as being equivalent to "I will write," thus considering "[a]m gonna" as an auxiliary to "write"? Or shall I think of "I'm gonna write" as being equivalent to "I am going to write," thus considering "to write..." an adverbial infinitive phrase? I would love to read some discussion on this clause and to be able to share it with my students afterward. Thanks, Glenda Conway Professor, English Coordinator, Harbert Writing Center Department of English and Foreign Languages Station 6420 University of Montevallo Montevallo, AL 35115 205 665-6425 office 206 665-6422 fax [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 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/