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Episode 1: The Definitions of Grammar

The Definitions of Grammar

Grammar is certainly a common word. You’ve been hearing it for most of your life, at least during most of your school life, probably from third or fourth grade on. However, there are many different meanings or different nuances of meaning, in connection with grammar. I will discuss here fairly broad definitions that will provide a framework for thinking about the various language issues you will be studying in these.

Grammar: The system of rules in our heads. As you learned in the Introduction, on page 1, you bring to the study of grammar a lifetime of “knowing” how to produce sentences. This subconscious system of rules is your “language competence.” It’s important to recognize that these internalized rules vary from one language community to another, as you read in connection with the plural forms of you.

Grammar: The formal description of the rules. This definition refers to the branch of linguistic science concerned with the formal description of the language, the subject matter of books like this one, which identifies in an objective way the form and structure, the syntax, of sentences. This is the definition that applies when you say, “I’m studying grammar this semester.”

Grammar: The social implications of usage, sometimes called “linguistic etiquette.” This definition could be called do’s and don’t’s of usage, rather than grammar. For example, using certain words may be thought of as bad manners in particular contexts. This definition also applies when people use terms like “poor grammar” or “good grammar.”

Grammar: The way we arrange words to make proper sentences. Word-level grammar covers verbs and tenses, nouns, adverbs, etc. Sentence-level grammar covers phrases, clauses, reported speech, etc.

In English grammar, the eight major parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

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Grammar is the study of the rules of a language, including sounds, vocabulary, sentences, and other elements such as word formation and interpretation. The term grammar also refers to the abstract features of textbooks that present these rules.

For the word linguistic, although it has the same meaning as grammar. but will be used to refer to Thai and Southern Thai only

The study of grammatical theory is of interest to philosophers. For centuries, anthropologists, psychologists, and literary analysts, today, grammar is a branch of linguistics. but still has close ties with other fields, but for the most part The development of grammar theory has little effect on the content of grammar in general education. for most people It is often understood that grammar refers to the rules that we must know in order to speak or write correctly.

English Grammar

Sentences are the most important part of the English grammar structure. because in everyday life We often say it in sentences. to communicate to others to understand But the sentence is made up of words. So if we start to study how to compose sentences Therefore, we must begin to study the words first.

Words – There are 8 types of words in English:

1. Nouns 

such as God, man, John, American, friend, star, stone, air, mile, beauty. They are used to refer to people, animals, things, concepts, abstracts, and beliefs.

2. Pronouns 

such as I, you, he, she, my, your, his, that, who, what, which, one, some are used instead of nouns. will not have to mention that name again

3. Adjectives 

used to modify noun and pronoun to describe the characteristics of the noun and pronoun more clearly. Divided into adjectives for describing characteristics, quantity and quantity

– Qualifier Adjectives or adjectives used to describe characteristics such as beautiful, healthy. , kind, poor, fast, dry, black

4. Verbs

such as go, take, fight, speak, sleep, wait are used to express various verbs. Verbs are also an important part of the predicate of a sentence. Verbs can also be divided into real verbs and imperfect verbs – Finite Verbs Real verbs or verbs that can be conjugated with subject and tense

– Non-finite Verbs (Verbals) Can’t change image

5. Adverbs

such as well, fast, long, gently, recently, again, yesterday, soon, rather, perhaps, not
verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, phrase, sentence, to add meaning to amplified

6. Prepositions

such as at, in, into, of, for, are used to connect verbs to parts of a sentence to indicate time, place, and direction, completing a sentence.

7. Conjunctions

such as and, but, or, nor, that, if, because) are used to join words or clauses.

8. Interjections

such as oh, alas, hurrah are used to express feelings or emotions.