What+is+Grammar?

Grammar is a very broad topic overall, and let us face it, most of those terms are not really used in everyday life, however as teachers you still need to have a descent understanding of those terms in order to teach efficiently. Below you will find a table where some terms have been defined for your personal use. All teachers are able to **print ** a copy of this table, **laminate ** it and **stick it ** near your desk somewhere in the classroom, so that when teaching and a blank occurs, you have it ready to use! **What is Grammar? ** “Grammar is a field of linguistics that involves all the various things that make up the rules of language. Subfields of linguistics that are considered a part of grammar include syntax, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">phonetics , <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">morphology , and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">semantics. Grammar is also used as a term to refer to the prescriptive rules of a given language, which may change over time or be open to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">debate .”
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">A positive aspect about this table is… ** ||

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The terms in the table below were obtained and interpreted from <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|http://www.wisegeek.com]. These definitions almost explain everything you need to know, however it is still worth having a look at their website in your own time, they have brilliant grammar ideas. <span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Some terms and definitions we come across in Grammar: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">For more information click on the link below or the green arrows: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 5.45pt 0cm 9.5pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 5.45pt 0cm 9.5pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"> **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f81bd; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 20px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">“Building a Sentence is Like Building a House.” ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">When you construct a house, you buy all kinds of building material: bricks, cement, sand, iron rods, wood, etc. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">If you just pile up one type of material over the other, you do not get a house. You need someone called an architect to build the house according to some plan in his or her head. Architects draw such plans on a special kind of paper. Such plans are called //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">blueprints //. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This quote was obatined from: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[]
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Terms ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">In other words… ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Definitions ** ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Linguistics ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Language rules ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The scientific study of language.  ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Syntax ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Sentence structure ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Syntax is the discipline that examines the rules of a language that dictate how the various parts of sentences go together.  ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Phonetics ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Sounds used in speech ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Phonetics is a discipline of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|linguistics] that focuses on the study of the sounds used in speech. Phonetics is closely related to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|phonology], which focuses on how sounds are understood in a given language.  ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Morphology (also see table below) ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Formation of words in a language ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Morphology is a field of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: auto;">[|linguistics] focused on the study of the forms and formation of words in a language.  ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Semantics ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Meaning in language ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Semantics is the study of meaning in language. In particular, it is the study of how meaning is structured in sentences, phrases, and words. Semantics generally refers to how meaning is conveyed through the symbols of a written language.  ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Phonology ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Sounds and speech patterns ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Phonology is the study of sounds and speech patterns in language.  ||
 * < <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Semiotics ** ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Functions of signs ||< <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 13px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Semiotics is the study of how we use symbols such as letters and numbers to transfer meaning between parties.  ||