English Grammar by Lidia Sarai Orantes Carranza

What is grammar?

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Grammar is the process of structuring words and sentences with specific sequences and rules to ensure meaning will be conveyed and transmitted correctly.

These patterns vary from a language to another.

How grammar became relevant in languages?

oc19013 — 2024-05-14 03:58:33 UTC

When Latin was a common language in religion and studies like philosophy, there was an entity that used to teach this language and its different descriptions which started to be followed and applied in new languages, English was one of them.

Nowadays, we have acquired the same way how to describe and identify the components of language that we know as parts of speech.

Nouns

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Words that relate to people, object names, places, animals, (e.g.) girl, table, city, dog) etc. We also have another type of nouns called proper nouns for specific nouns (e.g. Mary, Italy, Google, etc)

Articles

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Words that are used before nouns that show if the noun being used is general or specific.

Adjectives

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Words used to describe nouns (people, places, objects) and any type of characteristics to provide more information about them.

Verbs

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Words that represent any type of action (e.g. dance, walk, run, etc, etc.)

Adverbs

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Words that describe or modifies verbs most of the time when talking about events, actions or states, usually they end with -ly (quickly, clearly, exactly, etc)

Prepositions

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Words that give more details about place or time (at, on, in, etc.)

Agreement

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Certain categories can also be included in grammar when we talk about sentence structuring which we call terms of agreement that help us understand two parts of a sentence, usually the subject and and a verb form.

This can vary in different forms like number (whether we are talking about a singular or plural noun or the category of talking on first, second or third person), tenses reflected in verbs (past, present, future) and even gender for feminine or masculine depending on their biological distinction (she, her, he, his)

Grammatical gender

oc19013 — 2024-05-15 19:22:42 UTC

Although is not used in English language, this is a process in which languages classify nouns as feminine or masculine, sometimes as neutral nouns too. Grammatical gender does not work this distinction on a biological sense.

Is there a definite way to structure grammar?

oc19013 — 2024-05-15 23:30:50 UTC

Based on the prescriptive approach, labels of category need to be used in order to follow rules that ensure we will use the language properly as it needs to be. This method started with the Latin grammar. Should these etiquettes needed to be followed exactly like in Latin?

For example, it was considered incorrect to split a infinitive in a sentence, however, we know this is not a must in the English language, speakers do not form sentences like this all the time.

Describing instead of sticking to traditional rules?

oc19013 — 2024-05-16 00:27:34 UTC

Since certain structures were not useful in English, linguistics decided to focus to gather examples of several sentences to analyze what type of structures were being followed, instead of forcing certain ways how grammar should be structured. This is what is was known as descriptive approach.

Structural Analysis

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It is of the descriptive methods used to analyze how different forms in a language can be distributed by using test frames with blank spaces between them but not all forms fit into these.

Constituent Analysis

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This method focuses on making groups of components to form larger ones and create a sentence. These combinations help us understand how certain words go with others to create meaning.