#anapodoton

You know when a phrase is so well-known that you don't even need to say the whole thing because it's so well known?

But, THEY Started a Sentence with “But”

You need to know the rules before you can break the rules.

But do you?

The teachers in my district have been using an approach to grammar around suggested by Jeff Anderson in his Patterns of Power book and lessons. In this approach:

“…students study authentic texts and come to recognize these “patterns of power“—the essential grammar conventions that readers and writers require to make meaning.”