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The Syntactic Rules of the Game:

All the concepts and constructions 
that students need to know.

Note: These materials were created for a course that I taught several years ago. Since then most of the instructional materials have been further developed for the KISS Grammar Workbooks.
Introduction

Nexus and Modification  -- The Simplicity of English Sentence Structure (Or, What the Grammar Books Failed to Teach) 

Concepts:
Compounding

Ellipsis

Constructions:
Level 1:Prepositional Phrases

Level 2: Subjects/Verbs/Complements

Level 3: Clauses: Subordinate and Main

Level 4:Verbals (Gerunds, Gerundives, and Infinitives)


Level 5: The 7 Necessary Additional Constructions & 1 Short-Cut

Advanced Questions

Alternative Explanations

Sliding Constructions
This border is a reproduction of
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's
(French, 1841-1919)
Les Parapluies (The Umbrellas)
1881-82 and 1885-86, oil on canvas
National Gallery at London
Carol Gerten's Fine Art http://metalab.unc.edu/cgfa/
 [For educational use only]
Click here for the directory of my backgrounds based on art.