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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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    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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    Grammar teaching has been a hot issue when it comes to language learning and acquisition. As so many issues rose, 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 brings me to review the article by Zhou Ke concerns about the inductive approach to English

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    you think grammar is necessary inside the workplace and agree with firing workers with poor grammar? Grammar is a very important life skill, and Kyle Wiens progressed his company in firing those with poor grammar. He is a grammar stickler whom has an “extreme approach” when it comes to grammar, zero tolerance, firing those without proper grammar. Wiens claims everyone at one of his two companies “iFixit” or “Dozoki” take a mandatory grammar test. Firstly, he conveys his message that grammar is good

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    Language Teaching (CLT). Grammar Translation Method is a very traditional methodand I think in more or less in all medium schools it is mainly used. When we visit two schools, teachers were also use Grammar Translation Method and Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)for teaching the students. From my point of view, in our Bangladeshi culture especially beginner level of students need appropriate use of both native language (L1) and target language (L2) and for that reason Grammar Translation Method and

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    which need to be in agreement. Agreement refers to a grammatical connection between two parts of a sentence, such as the subject and the verb. While this is a lot for an ESL student to grasp, it facilitates the understanding of generative grammar. Generative grammar is the set of rules that dictate sentence possibilities in a language. A sentence has two structures. The first is referred to as the surface structure, and it is simply the form of the structure that is seen and heard. The second type of

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    Common Grammar Mistakes While speaking, people might make mistakes about tenses, grammars or structures, especially for foreigners. The errors would continue to the written language. Hence, in this paper, I will discuss some grammatical errors of three papers from student paper 3, 5 and 10. The types of paper are different from each other, such as journal, summary and critique. Since different paper types have different structures and expressive methods, it is more precise to discover the common

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    ________________________ Question 1 – Explain the similarities and differences between prescriptive and descriptive grammars. Do you think that one type is more important/superior than the other type? Why and why not? Also how are they relevant to pedagogic grammar? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Descriptive grammar uses expect that the main power for what is exists in a language is the thing that its native speakers acknowledge and

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    most authentic products of human interaction. Halliday (1985) considers a text as a semantic phenomenon but not as a grammatical one. However, as he notes semantics is interrelated to grammar as meaning is conveyed through wording that is with the help of grammar. In order to trace the meaning of a text discursive grammar should be functional and semantic at the same time, to be precise, grammatical categories must be interpreted as an expression of semantic models. Thus, according to Fontaine

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    Tarkan-Blanco 29 March, 2016 Prompt: Argue whether the formal instruction of grammar in school is helpful and enlightening for someone who wants to become a good writer. Formal Grammar instruction is necessary to become a good writer It is fairly easy to determine a person’s educational background based on a single conversation; whether through written messages or a verbal conversation, word choice and grammar are very apparent. Grammar in the formal writing style is needed to ensure that writing is flowing

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