but she maintains some flexibility in that, "the way in which an orator expresses a sentence is comparable to the way a writer punctuates. Both stress different parts of the sentence to create different meanings. The writer can create different effects with the same sentence through its punctuation" (Ayoob, p. 3). All of Kratzke's principles build on the others, so all are important and not necessarily easy to master (Kratzke, 2003). The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) agrees that isolated teaching of grammar skills is not justified, but they emphasize sentence building over
analysis or labeling, so their rationale for teaching grammar is slightly different (Guidelines, n.d.).