I would like to hear from people who teach or know of grammar courses offered at the college fresdhman or sophomore level. We teach such a course at North Seattle Community College. It concentrates on syntax and teaches a traditional approach to it. We even use Reed-Kellog diagrams rather than phrase structure trees. Another piece of our course applies the syntax to the improvement of writing. In that part of the course we use sentence combining. The course was created here by my colleague Edith Wollin, and I know that, in its present form, it is probably unique. It should be taught elsewhere, for it is very successful. Students praise it and recommend it to other students. They say it even makes them better readers! We present the material at a level and pace that would make it too challenging for many developmental-level students. The course is certainly as rigorous as any other 100-level and 200-level course in most colleges; indeed we think it rivals many higher level courses in usefulness. But we are aware that it does not present the broad linguistics-based grammar covered in the typical 300-level grammar course. One professor of such a course told me our course sounds like excellent preparation for his. He would love to get students who already know what a clause is, he said. I would be grateful to hear from colleagues who know of any kind of grammar or syntax course at freshman or sophomore level. Thanks. Michael Kischner North Seattle Community College Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 528-4540