No, you don't understand, Bob. How can you critique the grammar
when you don't understand it? Moreover, you have a vendetta against it.
I myself don't learn from dismissive put-downs, when I do indulge in them.
Are you learning anything from yours?

>
>Perhaps, I have missed something in my reading of Thompson, but I don't
>understand how these categories of SFG achieve what Martha has said a
>good grammar program needs to do.
>
>Bob Yates, Central Missouri State University
>


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