English grammar

methods have been used to teach English as a foreign language. In the past, teachers used the grammar translation approach, which consisted on reading literary texts and translating them from the target language into the mother tongue. This approach was influenced by the traditional methods that had been used for the teaching of Latin and Greek. It lost popularity throughout the years because linguists and teachers started to focus on the context instead of on form. The grammar translation approach used

"most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write"(Allsburg). While the school is redesigning its English curriculum, they are trying to decide how much grammar should be taught and if it will be taught at all. While people may believe that grammar should be taught because today's youth has grown up with shortcuts, it is quite clear that grammar should still be integrated into the school's curriculum because it creates good credibility

like Rule-based approach, Stochastic or probability approach and transformation-based approach. A simple rule-based tagger automatically acquires its rules and tags with accuracy. ENGTWOL, an English Rule based tagger is considered to be one of the most important tagger of the models based on constraint grammar architecture. After the rule based approach, the statistical or stochastic approach is used to develop language models to disambiguate a word sequence by assigning the most probable tag sequence

Grammar teaching has been a hot issue when it comes to language learning and acquisition. As so many issues arise, same goes to the research that has been conducted to calm down the tense. The knowledge of Grammar is not only a necessity for the native speaker but to the second language learner as well. Grammar knowledge is the core element of the production of speech that we use to communicate. This interest has brought me to review the article by Zhou Ke, which concerns about the inductive approach

Grammar is a concept that is used in writing, speaking and even reading; it describes a language and can be different depending on the location of a person. Grammar is affected by the dialect that a person speaks. I have chosen the book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins to focus on various grammar topics and build a better understanding of some topics. This book is one that examines the life of families in twelve districts, all of which are currently living their lives at different paces and in

2.8 All written work I do has to be proofread because most of the time the content is very important. This related to spelling and grammar, it reflects massively on the company and it’s important to keep all written work to a high standard. Proofreading gives me the oppurtunity to make any corrections and/or edit the document so its easier to read and interprit. 3.1 When I’m presenting

fluent in multiple local languages in Kenya, I ambitiously attended various colleges to pursue a career in Nursing. Although different areas such as punctuation, sentence structure, paraphrasing and grammar to mention the least, aimed to strengthen scholarly writing this quarter, writing in English still pose a challenge. Attitude In one of the assignments, I had to commit to a daily fifteen-minute writing session. Presented with a regular assignment of three very sick patients, it was practically

Growing up, English was always a struggle for me, I didn’t like to read or write and, I always found myself, especially trying to avoid reading at all costs. Up until first grade Spanish was all I knew, so when I began school I had to learn the language everyone already knew, English. English scared me and became difficult as I feared that I was falling behind in a subject I should have already know. Soon I found out I was right, during the dreaded parent conferences where my parents were told I

Lexical approach calls for urgent attention to the centrality of the lexicon in structuring language (Lewis, 2002). Schmitt also agree with that and comments: ‘The lexical approach can be summarized in a few words: language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks. The lexical approach is a way of analysing and teaching language based on the idea that it is made up of lexical units rather than grammatical structures. The units are words and chunks

GRAMMAR Grammar was considered as one of the most important for the development of a language. It was defined as set of rules and regulations for English language. There are many different types of grammar and they are, • Comparative Grammar : Comparative grammar was defined as the analysis and comparison of the grammatical structures of a language. Contemporary work in comparative grammar was concerned with "a faculty of language that provides an explanatory basis for how a human being can acquire