Designed to analyze and describe the transformational operations in sentences in written compositions, this test contains a list of 27 possible transformations, all variations of four basic transformational operations: addition, deletion, reordering, and combining. The developer reports an interrater reliability coefficient of .94. [This document is one of those reviewed in The Research Instruments Project (TRIP) monograph "Measures for Research and Evaluation in the English Language Arts" to be published by the Committee on Research of the National Council of Teachers of English in cooperation with the ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills. A TRIP review which precedes the document lists its category (Writing), title, author, date, and age range (intermediate--postsecondary), and describes the instrument's purpose and physical characteristics.] (RB)