Hi, everyone,

This is sort of tangential to the recent discussion, but..

I've just finished teaching a summer school course in History of the  
English Language.  It wasn't a total disaster, but you could see it  
from there.

I was using Laurel Brinton's new book (and I wish I liked it better  
than I do).  One of the things she does NOT discuss--and she has this  
in common with every other HEL textbook I've seen--is basic  
grammatical information.

My class was full of graduating English majors (in the teaching  
emphasis track)  and they had extreme difficulties with concepts like  
active and passive, subject, direct object, and subordinate clause.   
So, since I may be in the same fix next summer, I was wondering if  
anyone knew of some brief, basic overview of basic grammatical  
concepts that I could order.  (I envision a pamphlet-like publication  
of under a hundred pages.  It would have to be inexpensive, because  
HEL textbooks are extremely pricey.)

Any ideas?  Any internet sources?   The internet sources I've seen  
(such as the University College London grammar course, which I like  
very much) are too extensive.

Kathleen Ward
University of California, Davis

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