CHAPTER 7
Grammar
DESCRIPTION REFLECTIONS
The process of describing the
structure of phrases and
sentences in such a way that
We account for all the
grammatical sequences in a
language and rule out all the
grammatical sequences is one
way of defining grammar. It is the
kind of definition
assumed when we talk about the
grammar of English as opposed
to the grammar of
Swahili, Tagalog or Turkish. As
illustrated in Chapter 6, each of
these languages has
Different ways of forming
grammatical phrases and
sentences. Studying grammar in
This way has a very long
tradition. In this chapter
There were well-established grammatical
descriptions of these languages, it
seemed
Appropriate to adopt existing categories
from these descriptions and apply them
Analysis of "newer" languages such as
English. After all, Latin and Greek were
the
Languages, religion, philosophy and
"knowledge", so that the grammar
These languages were taken to be the
model for other grammars. The most well-
known terms
From that tradition are those used to
describe the parts of speech and is
something we have learned in this
chapter and not to make as many
mistakes as before we did not know the
use of each sentence or word.