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| Tips For Teaching Grammar
Sentence Diagramming to Show Phrases and Clauses Students today have little recognition of sentence segmentation. They tend to think of a sentence as an ongoing stream, rather than as an assembly of discretely structured pieces. Therefore, it is a good beginning in grammar teaching simply to have the students learn to recognize word clusters as genuine, discrete segments which compose the sentence. Teach them to see that a sentence consists of definite clusters called clauses and phrases. Clauses and phrases are closed pieces; they move around the sentence as one complete piece; and you can insert or delete them from the sentence as one piece. If students can learn to see the solid clusters within the sentence, that alone is a significant lesson in grammar. I have found that these three grammatical structures are a good basis: prepositional phrase: always starts on a preposition and goes to the next noun. clause conjunction: for every additional clause added to a sentence, there will always be a clause conjunction. dependent clause: contains the key subject-verb combination but is not an independent sentence. I ask students to mark these structures as follows: a. each prepositional phrase in brackets b. each clause conjunction in capital letters c. each dependent clause underlined. Examples: (In those days,) (in such cases,) men did not think (of germs and infections,) but (of sins.) {H. G. Wells} Your mother will never see you again IF you do not marry Mr Collins, AND I will never see you again IF you do. {Jane Austen} Jane united a composure (of temper) (with a uniform cheerfulness) (of manner,) WHICH would guard her (from the suspicions) (of the impertinent). {Jane Austen} This approach to sentence analysis will take your students from being structurally unaware to being structurally aware. The approach is an excellent precursor to the study of punctuation errors. --Robert Einarsson, Grant MacEwan College |
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