>
> just recieved a copy of the book "Graded Sentences for
> Analysis" (Rossman and Mills, 1922 Noble and Noble
> Pub. Inc. N.Y.) which contains 1200 progressively more
> complex sentences beginning with "Birds sing." and
> ending with "Though, in reviewing the incidents of my
> administration, I am unconscoius of intentional error,
> I am nevertheless too sensible to my defects not to
> think it probable that I may have comitted many
> errors."
>
> Each grammatical principle from simple adjectives and
> adverbs through noun clauses, participles, gerunds,
> infinitives, prepositional phrases, etc. etc., is
> systematically represented by model sentences in the
> book.
>
> I suppose that in a sense, one might consider a
> conlang "complete" when all 1200 sentences can be
> translated into that conlang.
>
> For what it's worth, I've added the first 30 sentences
> to the standard sentences section of my Kalusa conlang
> website
http://kalusa.fiziwig.com
>
> I hope to scan the book soon and make it available on
> my web page for interested conlangers.