l grammar at school. Another
colleague here has just lent me a recent grammar text, from since it was
reintroduced into the school curriculum there. The preface talks of "both
traditional and functional grammars", but it has the basic structures I
remember being taught.
*    I put it to you that people without a knowledge of the structural
basis of formalised grammar are disadvantaged in precisely, and hence
accurately, comprehending texts. This is especially when any unusual
structure is used. I would not 