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    This document provides information about grammar and its importance. It discusses that grammar is important for both speakers and listeners/readers as inaccuracy can be distracting or lower respect. It then defines grammar as the systematic study and description of a language and a set of rules for a language's syntax and words. The document also discusses the three main types of grammar: descriptive looks at how a language is used, prescriptive lays out rules of what is right and wrong, and functional looks at how grammar is used to construct texts and communicate.

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    This document provides information about grammar and its importance. It discusses that grammar is important for both speakers and listeners/readers as inaccuracy can be distracting or lower respect. It then defines grammar as the systematic study and description of a language and a set of rules for a language's syntax and words. The document also discusses the three main types of grammar: descriptive looks at how a language is used, prescriptive lays out rules of what is right and wrong, and functional looks at how grammar is used to construct texts and communicate.

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    This document provides information about grammar and its importance. It discusses that grammar is important for both speakers and listeners/readers as inaccuracy can be distracting or lower respect. It then defines grammar as the systematic study and description of a language and a set of rules for a language's syntax and words. The document also discusses the three main types of grammar: descriptive looks at how a language is used, prescriptive lays out rules of what is right and wrong, and functional looks at how grammar is used to construct texts and communicate.

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    MODULE - 1

    GRAMMAR AND USAGE

    What do you think?


    Would you agree or disagree with the following statement?

    Its not important for students to use correct grammar when they are talking, as long as they are getting their message across. Its not important for students to use correct grammar when they are writing, as long as they are getting their message across.

    Accuracy is important because


    From

    the point of view of the hearer/reader:inaccuracy, even if it doesnt affect meaning, is distracting, jarring discourteous may lower respect for the speaker/writer

    From

    the point of view of the speaker/writer, inaccuracy may lower selfconfidence lower self-respect as a language user

    Origin: Its origin was at late Middle English: from Old French gramaire, via Latin from Greek grammatik '(art) of letters', from gramma, grammat-'letter of the alphabet, thing written. A walk through: Grammar is the sound, structure, and meaning system of language. Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language. knowing about grammar offers a window into the human mind and into our amazingly complex mental capacity.

    FORMAL DEFINITION
    Grammar

    is the study of words and the ways words work together. It can help foster precision, detect ambiguity, and exploit the richness of expression available in English. Grammar is the structural foundation of our ability to express ourselves. The more we are aware of how it works, the more we can monitor the meaning and effectiveness of the way we and others use language.
    Precisely

    grammar is:

    The systematic study and description of a language. A set of rules and examples dealing with the syntax and word structures of a language, usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language.

    1.1 INTRODUCTION

    The role of grammar in language learning


    Grammatical

    competence is essential for communication.

    Inadequate

    grammar knowledge may lead to lower level of accuracy.

    1.1 INTRODUCTION

    It

    can enhance learners proficiency. It is important to learners because of: speech recognition: specifying sequences of words language understanding: to determine the structure and/or meaning of a sequence of words English language comes to our aid in our commercial transactions throughout the globe.

    Attracts

    people because of the wealth of literature and knowledge enshrined in it. It helps to study 3 Dimensions of language:1. FORM: sound, word, sentence(accurate?) 2. MEANING: what does it mean? 3. USE: where, when with who to use it?(appropriate?) It helps to study the forms of Language -components of language as a form1. PRONUNCIATON: sounds 2. WORDS: combinations of sounds

    1.1 INTRODUCTION

    TYPES OF GRAMMAR

    Descriptive Grammar

    TYPES OF GRAMMAR

    Prescriptive Grammar

    Functional Grammar

    (A) Descriptive grammar


    A

    descriptive grammar looks at the way a language is actually used by its speakers and then attempts to analyze it and formulate rules about the structure. Descriptive grammar does not deal with what is good or bad language use; forms and structures that might not be used by speakers of Standard English would be regarded as valid and included. It is a grammar based on the way a language actually is and not how some think it should be.

    Descriptive Grammar

    TYPES OF GRAMMAR

    Prescriptive Grammar

    Functional Grammar

    (B) Prescriptive Grammar


    The

    grammar glossary might define Prescriptivism as a standard language used as a particular variety of a language A prescriptive grammar lays out rules about the structure of a language. Unlike a descriptive grammar it deals with what the grammarian believes to be right and wrong, good or bad language use; not following the rules will generate incorrect language.

    Descriptive Grammar

    TYPES OF GRAMMAR

    Prescriptive Grammar

    Functional Grammar

    (C) Functional Grammar


    A

    functional grammar looks at the way in which grammar is used to construct texts in their context of use. It is a grammar that analyses how language is used to communicate. It deals with: analyzing experience - what is going on, analyzing interaction - who is communicating with whom. analyzing the ways in which messages are constructed.

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