The heartbeat of the Shurley Method is
the oral Question and Answer Flow. Students are taught a concrete set of
questions to ask as they work through each sentence. The answers to these
questions identify the elements of grammar within the sentence.
The
Shurley
English Question and Answer Flow is taught in
stages. As new grammar concepts are presented, new questions are added to the sequence.
This gradual increase means that the student can learn this comprehensive
process in manageable increments. Classifying becomes automatic, and the
questions and answers really do flow.
The example below is the classification of a
Shurley Level 3 sentence. The letters in parentheses are the abbreviations that are
written over the words being identified, and are not spoken aloud. REMEMBER:
Neither you nor your child needs to know how to do this prior to using
Shurley
English!
The material assumes no prior knowledge of the method, and even the parts of
speech are re-introduced at each level.
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Shurley Question and Answer Flow |
My mother hums cheerful tunes in the
shower. Who hums cheerful tunes in the shower? -- mother, subject noun (SN)
What's being said about mother? -- mother hums, verb (V)
Mother hums what? -- tunes, verify the noun
Do tunes mean the same thing as mother?-- No
Tunes -- direct object (DO)
Hums -- verb-transitive (V-T)
What kind of tunes? -- cheerful, adjective (Adj)
In -- Preposition (P)
In what? -- shower, object of the preposition. (OP)
The -- article adjective (A)
Whose mother? -- my, possessive pronoun adjective (PPA)
Subject Noun, Verb-transitive, Direct Object, Pattern Two, Check (SN, VT,
DO, P2)
Verb-transitive, check again
In the shower -- prepositional phrase
Period, statement, declarative sentence (D)
Go back to the verb, divide the complete subject from the complete
predicate.
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