Grammar for A-level English Language.ppt

Grammar for A-level English Language Dick Hudson St Francis Xavier College, June 2008 Plan An animated description of basic sentence structure with some notation A collection of interesting variations with some terminology A grammatical treasure hunt in seven extracts The extracts Grammar joke The Owl and the Pussycat Oliver Twist Directgov: vehicle taxation A grammarians funeral (Browning) The Sun: Blues warned off Kaka move Northern Ireland Transcribed Corpus of Speech Basic sentence structure Hunt for … A verb with just one word as its subject and no O or P or other dependent. 1: He arri