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 inEnglish language teaching (Toronto) Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 3 - 7
Main Author Sloane, David E. E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canadian Center of Science and Education 01.06.2009
Subjects
Editing
Grammar
Literary Styles
Punctuation
Sentence Structure
Sentences
Verbs
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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.
ISSN:1916-4742
DOI:10.5539/elt.v2n2p3