| Instructional Material |
Renoir's Les
Parapluies (The Umbrellas) |
| Introduction |
de Chirico's Melancholy
of a Beautiful Day |
| Nexus and Modification -- The Simplicity of English Sentence
Structure (Or, What the Grammar Books Failed to Teach) |
Reint
Withaar's Look Inside My Window |
| Compounding |
Van Gogh's
The
Church at Auvers-sur-Oise |
| Ellipsis |
Raphael's The
Mute Woman |
| Prepositional Phrases |
Guy Rose's On the
River |
| Subjects, Verbs, Complements |
Bouguereau's Fraternal
Love |
| Clauses: Subordinate and Main |
Sir Joshua Reynolds'
Master
Hare |
| Verbals |
Edgar Degas' Before
the Rehearsal |
| Eight Additional Constructions |
Renoir's Jugglers
at the Cirque Fernando |
|
# 1 Nouns Used as Adverbs |
Whistler's The
Blue Wave: Biarritz |
|
# 2 Appositives |
Delacroix's
Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains |
|
# 3 Interjections |
Toulouse-Lautrec's
Alone |
|
# 4 Direct Address |
Dossi Dosso's
Circe |
|
# 5 Noun Absolutes |
Edouard Manet's
The
Balcony |
|
# 6 Delayed Subjects |
Giotto di Bondone's
The
Nativity |
|
# 7 Retained Complements |
RUBENS' Virgin
and Child enthroned with saints |
|
Post-Positioned Adjectives |
Ingres' The
Valpinçon Bather |
|
Sliding Constructions |
Vermeer's
Woman
with a Water Jug |
| ENL 299: Grammar for Correctness, Meaning & Style |
Fredrick Lord Leighton's
The
Return of Persephone |
| Links |
Thomas Hart Benton's
Aaron |
| Non-Credit Course |
Bouguereau's The
Dance |
| Main Menu of Exercises |
Marc Chagall's For
Vava |
| Noting Progress |
Winslow Homer's
Canoe
in the Rapids |
| Alternative Explanations |
Picasso's
The
Dream |
| Constructions Ignored |
MICHELANGELO's
David
and Goliath |
| Errors, The Problem of |
van Gogh's Self-Portrait
with Bandaged Ear |
| Finding Subjects & Verbs |
Edouard Manet's
In
the Conservatory |
| Grammarians and Grammar Books |
Renoir's On the
Meadow |
| Prefixes & Suffixes |
Paolo
Veronese's Lucretia |
| Seeking Samples of Students' Writing |
Renoir's La
lecture (A Girl Reading) |
| Level 1 Exercises (Prep Phrases) |
da Vinci's Portrait
of Ginevra Benci |
| Level 1 Answers |
EL GRECO's Christ
Driving the Traders from the Temple |
| Level 2 Exercises (S / V / C) |
Delacroix's The
Massacre at Chios |
| Level 2 Answers |
Gainsborough's Lady
Sophia Charlotte Sheffield |
| Level 3: Clauses |
Peter Paul Rubens'
The
Garden of Love |
| Level 3 Answers |
Leighton's Flaming
June |
| Level 4: Verbals |
EL GRECO's The Burial
of Count Orgaz |
| Level 4 Answers |
Sir Joshua Reynolds'
Heads
of Angels |
| Level 5: The Eight Additional |
J. L. David's Napoleon
Crossing the Saint Bernard |
| Level 5 Answers |
Maxfield Parrish's
Ecstacy |
| Some Basic Statistics
on Style |
da Vinci's Study
of proportions |
| Teaching Grammar
as a Liberating Art |
Hassam's Allies Day
in May 1917 |
| Table of Contents |
Raphael's School
of Athens
Detail of Plato &
Aristotle |
| Introduction to the On-Line Edition |
Raphael's The
Vision of Ezekiel |
| Introduction: The Buzz & the Book |
Raphael's Self-Portrait |
| Ch 1: A History of Pedagogical Grammars |
Raphael's St. Catherine
of Alexandria |
Ch. 2: Traditional Grammar
from a Modern
Perspective |
Raphael's Moses
Saved from the Water |
Ch 3: What Should We Teach?
and A Theory
of Teaching |
Raphael's Saint
Cecilia |
Ch 4: A Theory of Natural Syntactic
Development |
Raphael's Portrait
of Maddalena Doni |
Ch 5: The Sequence of Syntactic
Development |
Raphael's Christ
on the Cross with the Virgin, Saint Jerome, Mary Magdalene, and John the
Baptist |
| Ch 6: A Theory of Syntax |
Raphael's Madonna
& Child
(The Small Cowper Madonna), |
Ch 7: Syntax in the Curriculum -- Following
the Natural Development
of Syntactic
Structures |
Raphael's The Woman
with the Unicorn |
Ch 8: Syntactic Errors and
Syntactic Expectations |
Raphael's The Prophet
Isaiah |
Ch 9: Reading, Psycholinguistics, and
Readability |
Raphael's La Donna
Velata |
| Ch 10: Writing, Style, and Freedom |
Raphael's The Mute
Woman |
| Ch 11: Syntax, Thinking, and Logic |
Raphael's The Fire
in the Borgo (detail) |
| Ch 12: Statistical Research in the Classroom |
[Clip Art -- The Liberty Bell] |
Appendix 1: My Materials for Teaching
Syntax |
Raphael's Mount
Parnassus (detail) |
Appendix 2: Some Comments on
Spreadsheets |
Raphael's Guiliano,
Duke of Nemours |
| Bibliography |
Raphael's The
Sistine Madonna |
| Cobweb Corner (Research) |
|
| Why the Statistics? |
Evelyn De Morgan's
Lux
in Tenebris |
| An Overview of KISS Research Projects |
Bouguereau's The
First Kiss |
| Key to Abbreviations |
Steen's Rhetoricians
at a Window |
| What Counts? [wc.htm] |
Bouguereau's The
Virgin with Angels |
| Words Per Main Clause |
Salvador DALI's
Leda
atomica |
| The 1986 Study |
Raphael's The
Woman with the Unicorn |
| Fourth Grade Writing |
Renoir's Girl
with a Hoop (Marie Goujon) |
| Seventh Grade Writing |
Manet's The
Fifer (Le Fifre) |
| My First Aluminum Study |
Manet's
Alabama
and Kearsarge |
| Aesop's Fables |
Velazquez's
Aesop |
| Jokes |
Simson's
Humor
Is Everything |
| Novelists |
Vermeer's
The
Milkmaid |
/R/Other/Poetry/N01A
Shakespeare's "That Time of Year" |
Edward
Hopper's Shakespeare at Dusk |
| Statistical Studies based on Samples from State Standards Documents
-- Grade 3 |
illustration
by Jan Marcin Szancer for "The Snow Queen" |