Re: grammar tricks

[Wes Chapman <wchapman@titan.iwu.edu>]

OK, I'm confused.  What's a "trick for teaching grammar," as opposed to,
say, a grammatical rule (e.g. who is subjective case, whom is objective),
or a pedagogical principle (e.g. teach grammar in the context of a
particular task, address performance errors before knowledge errors,
etc.)?  A mnemonic?  And how about tricks that are generally regarded as
suspect but which work for most people, such as putting commas where one
pauses? 

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