This is meant to help students understand how phrases and clauses work.

1. Exercises

2. Grammar is the logic of speech, even as
logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/grammar.html

3. complete thought, could be a simple sentence
Grammar is the logic of speech,
even as logic is the grammar of reason.

4. WHAT is logic of speech
Grammar is the grammar?

5. , even as logic is the grammar of reason.
WHAT is logic?

6. One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know!
One morning, while still in my pajamas, I shot
an elephant.
Groucho Marx as Capt. Geoffrey T. Spaulding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Movie_Quotes

7. Writing is an act of faith,
not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/ebwhite379420.html

8. Writing is an Writing?
WHAT is act of faith,
not a trick of grammar.

9. Writing is an act of faith,
not a trick of grammar.

10. Writing is an act of faith,
not a trick of grammar.

11. Like everything metaphysical, the harmony
between thought and reality is to be found
in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

12. Professor Plum studies visiting the depths of the ocean
in the study with his friends and his dog.

13. gerund phrase
(present participle
phrase as a noun)
Professor Plum studies visiting the depths of the ocean
in the study with his friends and his dog.
The ocean is in the study? That’s a BIG study.

14. In the study, Professor Plum studies plumbing the depths
of the ocean with his friends and his dog.
In the study with his friends and dog, Professor Plum
studies plumbing the depths of the ocean.

15. I have always depended
on the kindness of strangers.
“Depended on” is what’s called a
prepositional verb or a phrasal
verb and “kindness” would be its
direct object.
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-phrasal-verbs_1.htm
Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire

16. Arguments over grammar and style are
often as fierce as those over IBM versus
Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus
Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch
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