Unit 1: Grammar

 

Definition

Grammar refers to the way people combine, organize, and change the different parts of the words, groups of words to produce meaning. At the moment to speak we generate grammar in an unconscious form, it also happens in the other skills (listen, read, and write). Teachers use it to describe language. The grammar contains several forms and uses.

The grammatical form represents how words are represented in speech or writing, such as plural of regular nouns in English is “base word”.

In parts of speech is easy to identify grammatical forms, grammatical structures, words adding prefix, and suffixes. There are nine recognizable parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and exclamations. It supports to observe the function of a word in a sentence.

Functions make to change the form of some parts of speech have in sentences.

Look at the following table to observe the difference between structure and form.

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English forms words with the use of two affixes: prefixes and suffixes.

What are grammatical uses?

It explains the use of grammatical structures to convey meaning. A specific grammatical structure does not have the same meaning all the time. This meaning depends on the context which is used. Loot at the table to observe some structures and their uses.

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Read the following tips.

·       Every grammar rule describes how language works, nevertheless language changes with the time, for that reason grammar rules are not fixed. Grammar changes but its rules and grammar books do not change faster as language.

·       Grammar rules usually explain written language rather than spoken language. There are some examples to explain: repetitions, exclamations, and contractions are normal features of spoken language, but those are not always mentioned in grammar books.  

Glossary:

Affixes:

Base words:  it is the main word and other words can be created adding a prefix or suffix.

Contraction: it occurs with auxiliary verbs, it creates shorter forms of word groups.

Convey meaning: it shows, expresses, or communicates meaning.

Features: it is an important characteristic in a sentence.

Forms: it presents the grammatical structure of written or pronounced, also the parts that can combine. Example: present simple (grammatical structure), pronoun + verb + complement (form).

Grammatical structures: grammatical language pattern.

Nouns: a person, a thing, or a place.

Parts of the speech: organizing words according to grammatical function and meaning.

Prefix: letter or group of letters added at the beginning of a base word to create a new one.

Suffixes: letter or group of letters added at the end of a base word to create a new one.

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