Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i7BEE7C20722; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:14:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:14:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <11B9C489.4C35A176.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:633] Re: DAR (Diagnostic Assessments of Reading) X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1880 Lines: 15 Karen, What a pleasure to read your long and discursive email I like grammar, I like words, and like I said, theories abound....and are unbound. Subject + verb, everything else is commentary. Someone does something. There are infinite variations and decorations and embellishments, as you demonstrate. I do stand firm on this. It is innate. I educated myself via brain science and symbol systems, so when I say/write "subject+verb" I am talking about the top of a mountain rather than a random boulder, or erratic (boulder washed down by a glacier). Anyone who seriously wants to quote this, however, has to do their own slogging and fieldwork. As long as you don't have to write a dissertation on the subject, you are safe with subject + verb. I gather you are searching for direction rather than a bibliography, however. Start with subject + verb, you can't go wrong. Build from there. I have an ESOL friend, finally got tired of his pidgin, and started saying "NO!" "STOP!" "SPEAK IN FULL SENTENCES1" "SPEAK IN PROPER ENGLISH1" He always thanks me for correcting him, no one else corrects him. I figure he has to interact with a lot of people besides me, and needs to be able to communicate well so others understand easily. I used to be a school teacher, the impetus for improving others is hard to squelch. I figure if I know it and they don't I have to tell them, a moral imperative. This habit rather startles people, most folks are used to the babble of the spheres, and when someone listens and responds to what they are saying their eyes open right up. I too have (or had) Latin and French. My voice is often taken for "cold roast Boston," it's where I went to school that did it I think. My closest voice match though is southern New Hampshire or Cape Cod,a warmer version of the cold roast, but not full-fledged New England country. Andrea
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