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    correction our grammar or something. (Novitya Febrianti – 20th) 12. Of course social media can help us on writing skill. Because in this era, when we get wrong in grammar, a spelling check on our smartphone will show where the mistake core is. (Sagita Biliandini – 20th) 13. Yes. Because there is so much people that used a gadget such android, iphone etc. Automatically it will make them use a social media. And because social media is an foreign product of course we want to use English. (Fikry

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    Growing up, I never thought grammar or English would be important in the future. In Elementary you were taught grammar from the English Curriculum of the state you are living in, but the real question is; is the grammar you have been taught correct? According to Dennis Baron, "Teachers reject such knowledge towards the simplistic language model they absorbed when they were in school, a model that ignores the complexities of the language people use daily with a few prescriptive rules that can be memorized

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    My love affair with Grammar was once an unstable, inconsistent one. It began in 12th grade, my senior year of high school. Mind you, it’s not that I met Grammar in high school; I knew him, well, for most of my life. I began reading at the age of three, and it can be rightly stated that Grammar and I began our relationship at that time. You see, I was a precocious early reader, who cracked the reading code, without formal instruction. I realized that there was a rhythm, cadence, and pattern to language

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    Introduction General statement A debate exists between the descriptivist and the prescriptivist views of grammar. Thesis statement, your answer to the question In society today, the descriptivist approach to language is more widely used and accepted while the prescriptivism view is in decline. Outline / main points of your argument 1 Descriptive and prescriptive language defined 2 Relevance and usage of grammar previously learnt 3 Evolving language styles and examples Body paragraph 1 Topic sentence Descriptivists

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    Nowadays, although teaching and learning English has constantly changed, the Audio-Lingual Method still plays a significant role in many English classes around the world. According to Larsen-Freeman (2000), the Audio-Lingual Method was developed from an interesting idea that behavioral psychology and linguistic conventions are closely related to each other. Thus, this method aims to enhance learners’ ability by overlearn and habit formation. The goal of this method is to help the students to be

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    of TG grammar and to give the cognitive-differentiation of the syntactic ambiguous sentence which enable us to have a complex and accurate understanding of the sentence structure. The author tries to make the contrastive analysis of the ambiguity of English and Chinese sentence from the perspective of the TG grammar to find the similarity and the difference between these two languages which may bring something new to this field of research. Key words: contrastive analysis, TG grammar, English ambiguous

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    understanding the difficulties of grammar. To many it seems as though understanding the intricacies of grammar lies far beyond the reaches of the mind. My proposition would suggest that ones experience with the difficulties of grammar might be more dependent on psychological factors rather than the presumption that the rules haven't been studied enough. That is to say that not enough credit is given to the role the psychological constructs play in assisting the use of correct grammar where applicable.Or to

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    will discuss the codification of English. It is no doubt that codification of English was an essential component in the process of standardization. First of allwe can define codification of English as the process of setting up official system or rules to language components like words, grammar and pronunciation. In other words Process of codification can be simply defined as standardizing important aspects or features of a certain language such as words, grammar and pronunciation. Since the language

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    Grammar is the foundation of the majority of our literary works throughout the years. Although as teaching styles evolve throughout time, the instruction of grammar should evolve as well. An article in The Atlantic, “The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar,” by Michelle Navarre Cleary, touches base on how grammar lessons today should be learned through the use of creative writing rather than more traditional means of grammar instruction. Her article does well as she connects the reader logically and emotionally

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    Grammar is an important skill that is put into practice on a daily basis. Proper grammar is essential to understanding one’s own language and for communication to happen between individuals who speak the same tongue. Grammar also lays the foundation for effective communication and if used improperly the message that wants to go through will loses its initial meaning. Grammar skills are of great importance, since they are useful in every aspect of life. Grammar is acquired even before a baby is

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