Describes a technique for introducing the basics of grammar into a college freshman composition course, in which the instructor correlated grammatical structures with students' personality types. (HTH)

Since clauses are the largest functional components of a sentence, their analysis can increase attention to sentence structure and stylistic variation. Students can learn to distinguish main clause types by naming the verb forms used (transitive, intransitive, equational, and passive). Once students have mastered the recognition of main clauses,…