Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; How to use this book; Chapter 1: Why sentence combining for adults?; Chapter 2: What is grammar?; Chapter 3: What is a sentence?; Chapter 4: What is a conjunction?; Chapter 5: How does sentence combining work in practice? Some guidelines for the classroom; Chapter 6: Sentence combining and the Adult Literacy Core Curriculum; Chapter 7: What about different varieties of English? Issues of dialect and register; References; Glossary

About the Author

Dr Maxine Burton is a visiting research associate at the Institute of Education, London. She is an experienced adult literacy practitioner and trainer, and linguistics teacher. She is the author of several adult literacy handbooks, including the NIACE publication Phonetics for Phonics: Underpinning Knowledge for Adult Literacy Practitioners.