This book introduces a specific approach to sentence analysis by comparing traditional grammar with newer methods, including transformational grammar. The first chapter discusses the teaching of grammar and language skills and the use of standard and nonstandard dialects. Traditional grammar is defined and discussed in chapter 2. The other chapters discuss the morpheme, the noun, the verb, the adjective, the adverb, function words, the kernel sentence, and the transformation. Each of the chapters concludes with suggestions for further reading and a section for testing the concepts presented. (LL)