The Teacher’s Grammar BookSecond Edition phần 7 pptx

... ascertaining whether a theory of universal grammar correctly describes the initial state of the language faculty—or even whether there is a language faculty as described in the MP. Moreover, the MP focuses ... func - tions as the subject in the second sentence but as an object in the first.) In the first sentence, the focus is on the process of solving the crossword, w...

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... preposition. Consider sentences 70 and 70 a: 70 . Macarena hated the clothes which Fred arrived in. 70 a. Macarena hated the clothes. Fred arrived in the clothes. 150 CHAPTER 4 5 Noam Chomsky and Grammar THE CHOMSKY ... the expressions of the language. The theory of a particular language is its grammar. The theory of languages and the expressions they gener- ate is Un...

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... of, 70 tense revisited, 214 tenses number in English, 70 T-G grammar problems with, 182 that and which usage, 150, 179 the Bible first translations, 7, 10 the Church, 7 the five offices, 4 the ... 13 the reason is because and grammaticality, 139 the Renaissance, 10 Thernstrom & Thernstrom, 241 the writer as artist, 29 theory of language, 162 theory of mind, 162 topi...

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... was the case in the Bay Area when various schools shifted instruction and textbooks to BEV. I worked with about a dozen of these students in the early 1 970 s after they enrolled in college. They ... expressions they know. Then have them re - cord additional examples of slang outside of class, preferably off campus, perhaps at a mall. Allow them to discuss their observations and compare...

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... illustrations: 1. The book was on the table. 2. The book was under the table. two structures coexist in the network owing to the fact that they both appear in speech. Whether a person uses one or the other ... thing in terms of another. Thus, we cannot separate the meaning of the word from the person who uses the word. Equally important, we cannot separate the meaning...

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... sick friend in the morning. The verb visit is not tensed in this sentence; instead, the tense marker is attached to the modal. But although the modal is in the past tense, the action is to occur in the ... comma before the conjunction joining the last item; PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR 113 ments: It places them in parentheses. With these factors in mind, we can adjust the...

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... sentence 37: 37. I’m going to lie down for a nap. Part of the confusion seems to be related to the fact that lay is the past tense of lie, whereas laid is the past tense of lay. Then there is the fact ... modifier: 71 . The woman with the red hair drove a Porsche. 72 . Fritz walked down the street. 73 . In the morning, Fred always has wild hair. The list of English pr...

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... that the two men washed their own faces, only that they washed someone other than themselves. To indicate the first meaning, the pronoun their must be plural to include Fritz and Fred, and the noun ... terms of the structure. TEACHING GRAMMAR 47 2. The tree was tall. The word dogs is the agent of sentence 1. It performs the action conveyed in the word bark. We also can...

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... English grammar than their teach - ers, but they nevertheless speak and write English quite poorly, on the whole. Their learned—rather than acquired—knowledge of English grammar does not help them ... structure at all. Are they really part of grammar? Deciding the content of grammar instruc - tion is not a simple matter, and the new teacher’s task is further complicated by the...

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... Grammar 1 Agreeing on a Definition 1 Greek Beginnings 2 Grammar in Rome 5 Grammar in the Middle Ages 7 The Age of Enlightenment 9 The Age of Reason 12 Modern Grammars 15 2 Teaching Grammar 17 Recognizing ... 54 Nouns 59 Pronouns 60 Verbs 70 Modifiers 77 Function Words 82 4 Phrase Structure Grammar 97 From the Universal to the Particular 97 Phrase–Structure Rules 1...

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