A Sentence Is Not a Complete Thought: X-Word Grammar
X-Word Grammar provides an editing technique for students that is more reliable than trying to identify sentences as complete thoughts. A sentence is redefined as "a group of words that can be turned into a yes-no question with no words left over; starts with a capital letter, and ends with a t...
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Published in | English language teaching (Toronto) Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 3 - 7 |
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Main Author | |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
01.06.2009
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Summary: | X-Word Grammar provides an editing technique for students that is more reliable than trying to identify sentences as complete thoughts. A sentence is redefined as "a group of words that can be turned into a yes-no question with no words left over; starts with a capital letter, and ends with a terminal punctuation mark." Twenty auxiliary verbs play a key role by moving around the subject of a sentence to identify the correct structure of a sentence using both visual and oral means. Stressing editing skills, teachers can use X-Word Grammar as a means to simplify sentence punctuation, address verb endings, carry out other tasks in editing and evaluating writing. |
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ISSN: | 1916-4742 |
DOI: | 10.5539/elt.v2n2p3 |