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"Kathleen M. Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 8 May 2005 08:29:50 -0700
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This is the question I have been asking all my (teaching) life.  No one 
has ever come up with an answer.

Kathleen Ward
On May 8, 2005, at 6:42 AM, PAUL E. DONIGER wrote:

> This is all very logical and interesting, but I have a question that 
> remains unanswered: How do we teach function without teaching 
> terminology? I don't see how we can talk about, for example, the 
> Known/New idea behind making sentence structure choices without 
> reference to things like 'subject' or 'verb' or 'clause' or maybe even 
> 'adverb'! That's grammatical terminology, isn't it?
>  
> Paul
>

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