>  I would like to second all that Craig has argued for in support grammar in
relation to Standard English.  For one, how can one teach punctuation without
teaching syntax?  However, I would like to mention with respect to his third
reason the considerations that Christensen and Tufte and the sentence-combining
people have made clear concerning the relation between the fundamental statement
units and the final filtered rhetoric of the complex sentence.  Grammar and
style are intimately linked:  read the opening of 'Bleak House' to find one
proof.

Edmond

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