Re: grammar tricks

[Lori Rogers <34idjii@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>]

At 08:53 PM 11/20/96 -0600, you wrote:
>May incorrect tag question at the end of my last message should remind us
>Ray N . . . ? ultimate grammar tricks that really work for native speaker.
>
>They involve tag questions for detecting complete, logical questions.  I's
>a havin' a real hard time to 'member the hole name and the name of the
>really significant book.
>
>Perhaps tomorrow.  What the book shows is the way we understand
>grammar is usually what we are calling a trick here.
>
>Linda Coblentz
>UH-Downtown

Linda,

The book you are referring to is _Grammar and the Teaching of Writing_ by
Rei R. Noguchi. It is an excellent resource. I have a friend who calls it
the anti-grammar book. How's that for guerilla  warfare?

Lori Rogers
lori.s.rogers@cmich.edu>