Elise Bishop - Holy Grammar: Sentence Combining with Scripture

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Elm Hill titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail . All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. www.Zondervan.com. www.Zondervan.com.

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In this ebook edition, please use your devices note-taking function to record your thoughts wherever you see the bracketed instructions [Your Notes] or [Your Response Here]. Use your devices highlighting function to record your response whenever you are asked to checkmark, circle, underline, or otherwise indicate your answer(s). This workbook is a grammar book, not a religious text. Its purpose is not to advance any one worldview or particular theology. Instead, it aims to provide meaningful sentences through which to teach/learn the underlying structure of the English language.

To communicate thoughts and ideas effectively, speakers and writers must understand the power of grammar to help them construct clear sentences. Clear writing reflects clear thinking. In my opinion, it is more important to study language than any other subject. Heres why: Through words and sentences and paragraphs, we communicate every idea in the universe, whether it be in the fields of math, science, art, engineering, music, philosophy, etc. To communicate ideas effectively, we all need to be language experts first. Support for my contention comes from John 1:1-3: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. Half-jokingly, I like to point out to students and colleagues that Jesus is the Word, not the Number, or the Formula. You get my point. The Bible teaches us many thingswhy not how to use language effectively? What better way to learn the conventions of language than through the inspired Word of God?

The practice in this text is based on a strategy called sentence combining, a proven and effectiveyet underutilizedtechnique for improving the complexity and maturity of student writing. Sentence combining shows students how sentences are created.

It allows instructors to teach grammar with fewer rules to memorize and encourages students to build on their intrinsic knowledge and understanding of the language, which they have been developing since birth.

In life as well as to the exercises in this workbook, the Bible itself is the answer key. All sentences in the exercises and examplesover 200 of themare taken from the Bible. Unless otherwise noted, verses are from the New International Version (NIV), based on their usefulness in grammar study, not for any particular nuance or perceived meaning. Specific Bible translations other than the one students have at hand may be checked online at sites like BibleGateway.com or BibleHub.com. When completing the exercises in this book, then, students may arrive at several correct combinations that differ from the Bible version they are using.