What is grammar?Grammar drived from Greek “grammatike” meaning “to write”Kinds of grammar:Prescriptive grammar: to be phrased as prohibition standard grammarDescriptive grammar: to describe the grammatical system of a language (e.g to describehow to play football: using a ball, hand and a basket...)Grammar development:•Traditional grammar: grammar teaching at school, parts of speech, The traditional categories•Immediate constituents: using techniques for displaying sentence structure is the use of immediate constituent (IC) analysis•Phrase structures and transformational grammar:Phrasal structure: the division of a sentence into parts, or constituents, and the division of those constituent into subparts.the transformational rules can be informally thought of as an instruction to change one structure to another•Functional grammar: showing grammar communicating meaning in social interaction.
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