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| | A Linguistics-Based Approach to Teaching Prescriptive Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | While at first few teachers tried to apply linguistic theories of language structure to grammar instruction, awareness of such theories and of general linguistic attitudes towards language phenomena, especially in the past two or three decades, has become more widespread among language arts professionals who are not themselves linguists per se. |
 | | Moreover, the rule's credibility is further impeached, as is illustrated in the Churchill example, by frequent attempts to apply it to the second elements of verb-adverb constructions (as in sit down) or phrasal verbs such as make up or turn out. |
 | | In the former case, the proposition-like word is clearly functioning adverbially, while in the second, it is simply part of the verb, part of an idiom (see Kolln 325-28, and earlier, for a discussion of these constructions and the clause-final preposition rule). |
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