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What is Grammar?

Types of Speeches

Adjectives

Adverbs

Prepositions

Interjections

Conjuctions

Pronouns

Nouns

Verbs

Usually the grammar intended as an aid to the learning of that language.

The systematic study and description of a language, dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language.

Prescriptive Grammar

For Example

In American English the correct form of 2nd person plural is you.

Attempts to conserve linguistic patterns

Passes value judgments “right” and “wrong”

Molds language to ideal usage

Arbitrary rules derived primarily from written language

Written language

It refers to a set of forms, which allow us to know how sentences should or should not be formed.

Universal Grammar

A child needs to observe the set of rules that other children use to understand and produce their mother tongue

A baby is born with his innate ability to learn a language

Every child is born with the tools to learn any language.

Children are born with an innate device for acquiring language.

Generalities

It is a pattern that all languages follow and is part of a child's innate ability to learn a language.

Teaching Grammars

Process in 3 Steps

Mechanical drills Imitation, substitution, repetition Meaningful drills Make sentences, rewrite and translate sentences Communicative drills Use the structure flexibly

Explanation

Inductive method Learners are encourage to formulate rules for themselves. Deductive method Learners are taught the rules and features of the target language

Presentation

Live-action, visual, printed, verbal, audio, or animated.

Grammar is an important part of language learning. It uses in order for students can spontaneously produce language

Descriptive Grammar

Practice

On the contrary, when a sentence is poorly structured, it means that it differs from the grammar rules

When a speaker recognizes that a sentence is well structured, it means that it conforms to the mental grammar rule.

Characteristics

They clearly and effectively describe a language, as well as its grammar rules.

Languageists describe the rules of the language that their speakers know and keep in mind.

Definition

It is the description that linguists or grammarians make about a language.