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Revised August 21, 2024
Many of you noted
that this website crashed again. That's because I changed webhosts.The
new webhost fixed it up and running except the KISSList is not yet working.
When the old host cut KISSList, the people on it got lost. (Sorry!) If
you want to be added to KISSList e-mail me, I am making a list on a doc,
so I can add to the List when it is ready. evavra@kissgrammar.org.
I would your view of some questions. I thank you for patience. Ed
Don't
believe me? Show me a grammar text that enables students to apply it to
the analysis of anything that they read or write. Every text that I have
seen presents students with definitions of grammatical constructions, each
followed by one or two exercises. A construction is then dropped and instruction
goes to something different. The books never show students how these constructions
work together to form meaningful sentences. At a grammar conference in
the 1980s, a primary school teacher explained how she taught the parts
of speech. Then a middle school teacher did the same thing, then a high
school teacher, and then a college teacher.
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