A17 ;;Quote: English students should be taught form instead of content; can't write clean sentences if you don't know what they are

A17 ;;Quote: in 14 weeks create a natural language with a syntax, lexicon, translation, and course guide; indicate distinctions of tense, number, manner, mood, agency

A17 ;;Quote: a sentence is words placed into a relationship with one another; generate 20 sentences from 5 random words

A17 ;;Quote: the relationships within a sentence concern actors, their actions, and the objects of those actions; a limited set of possibilities

A17 ;;Quote: a language always has a regular and abstract way of conveying distinctions of number, time, manner, space, hierarchy, difference

A17 ;;Quote: can use any formal devise to signal grammatical distinctions -- word order, word endings, prefixes, suffixes, numbers, brackets, fonts, colors