Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Grammar
- Grammar
- Is the set of rules that allow us to
properly structure sentences and
phrases
- Traditional grammar
- The parts of speech
- Nouns
- Articles
- Adjectives
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Conjunctions
- It originates from the study of Latin and
Greek and it gives us the parts of
speech.
- Agreement
- Besides the parts of speech, we
have some characteristics to
structure sentences. For example a
verb must agree with the noun,
etc.
- Number
- Singular or plural noun
- Person
- First person, second person and third
person of singular and plural
- Tense
- Past, present, future
- Voice
- Passive/active
- Gender
- Natural gender
- This refers to the biological gender a
person or animal is born with
(female or male)
- Grammatical gender
- This is based on the type of noun
which could be masculine or
feminine and it's not related to
sex.
- Traditional analysis
- Latin verb forms were used to
analyze English verbs
- The prescriptive approach
- Rules for the proper user of English
- The descriptive
approach
- Structural analysis
- It investigates the distribution
forms in a language by using
"test-frames".
- The "test-frames" are incomplete sentences
where you try different parts of speech to
see which ones fit better in that section.
- Constituent analysis
- This shows how small components
can get together to form a larger
one, such as a phrase or sentence
- Labeled and bracketed sentences
- This is a diagram that shows
the labels or breaks down the
components of a sentence
- With this analyzis we can find the hierarchical organization
of the components. For example, the Subject is higher and
contains a Noun Phrase, it's also higher than the Verb Phrase
but this one is higher than the Noun Phrase it contains.
- It studies the structures of a
language as it's used.