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Self-Study Guide

The Rank Scale

DESCRIPTION​

The rank scale is the structural foundation of English grammar. It is where syntactic analysis begins, and without it, everything else sits on uncertain ground.

 

​​This guide provides the conceptual groundwork required to make sense of subsequent grammar and syntactic topics.​

 

If you teach grammar but have never studied it as a system, or if the levels feel familiar but disconnected, this is where to start.

 

This self-study guide works through the rank scale as a complete system — from sentence to morpheme — so you can see not just what each level is, but how it functions within the whole.

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THIS GUIDE COVERS:​​

  • What the rank scale is and why it is the starting point for all grammatical analysis

  • Each level of the system explained in depth:

      ➟ Sentences

      ➟ Clauses

      ➟ Phrases

      ➟ Words

      ➟ Morpheme​s

  • How each level relates to and builds on the next

  • A glossary of key syntactic terms

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​GUIDE FORMAT

  • PDF self-study guide

  • Immediate digital access after purchase​​

PRICE​

 USD 24

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