Sentence-Combining in Grade Eight
Barry Yearwood
Your feedback is important to us!
After viewing our curriculum units, please take a few minutes to help us understand how the units, which were created by public school teachers, may be useful to others.
Notes
1. Kellogg Hunt, “How Little Sentences Grow into Big Ones,” rpt. in Alexander Frazier ea., New Directions in Elementary English (Champaign: NOTE, 1967), p. 117.
2. Kellogg Hunt, “Teaching Syntactic Maturity,” rpt. in G.E. Peren and J. Trim, eds., Applications of Linguistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), p. 298.
3. Hunt, “Teaching Syntactic Maturity,” p. 299.
4. Hunt, “Teaching Syntactic Maturity,” p. 299.
5. William S. Palmer, “Research on Grammar: A Review of Some Pertinent Investigations,” High School Journal, 58 (March 1975), pp. 252-254.
6. James Squire, cited in Eileen J. McGuire, “Sentence-Building and Transformational Grammar,” English Journal 56 (May 1967), p. 747.
7. Eileen J. McGuire, “Sentence-Building,” p. 747.
8. Frank O’Hare, cited in Wm. Strong, “Sentence-Combining: Back to Basics and Beyond,” English Journal, 65 (Feb. 1976), p. 60.
9. William Strong, Sentence-Combining: A Composing Book (New York: Random House, 1973), p. 10.
10. Charles Cooper. “An Outline for Writing Sentence-Combining Problems,” English Journal, 62 (June 1973), p. 99.
11. William Strong, “Sentence-Combining: Back to Basics,” p. 60.
12. Strong, A Composing Book, pp x & xi.
13. Strong, A Composing Book, p. 132.
