Traditional grammar

Traditional Grammar

Presented by: Rogelyn A. Castaῇeto
MED - English

English

Traditional Grammar is
applied to summarize the
range of methods found in the
pre-linguistic era of
grammatical study. The whole
approach of this method
emphasizes on correctness,
linguistic purism, literary
excellence, the priority of the
written mode of language and
the use of Latin models.

Besides the
Traditional grammarians parts of speech,
considered Latin as their traditional
model because English is a grammatical
part of the Indo-European
family of languages, and to analysis also
which Latin and Greek also makes use of
belong. It did have similar
grammatical elements.
numerous other
If you study the form of categories, just
traditional grammar, the like 'number',
rules of classical languages
were followed considering
'gender',
that English did not have 'person', 'tense'
grammar of its own. And and 'voice'.
English followed Latin
grammar.

The collection of prescriptive rules and concepts
about the structure of language that is commonly
taught in schools.
Traditional English grammar(also known as school
grammar) is largely based on the principles of Latin
grammar, not on current linguistic research in English.

"We say that traditional grammar is prescriptive
because it focuses on the distinction between what
some people do with language and what they ought
to do with it, according to a pre-established standard.
. . . The chief goal of traditional grammar, therefore, is
perpetuating a historical model of what supposedly
constitutes proper language."
(James D. Williams, The Teacher's Grammar Book.
Routledge, 2005)

"Why do the media cling to traditional grammar and its sometimes
out-dated rules? Mainly because they like the prescriptive approach
of traditional grammar rather than the descriptive approach of
structural and transformational grammar. . . .

"Why? Inconsistencies in the style of a newspaper, online news site,
magazine or book draw attention to themselves when readers should
instead be concentrating on the content. . . .

"But the prescriptive rules have to be amended occasionally to
reflect not only changes in the language but also research that proves
traditional advice may have been inaccurate. The work of linguists is
essential for making such calls on the best evidence available."
(Brian Brooks, James Pinson, and Jean Gaddy Wilson, Working with
Words. Macmillan, 2005)

What is the difference between traditional
grammar and modern linguistics?
Firstly, modern linguistic is descriptive(to describe the
way people speak) , while traditional grammar is
prescriptive(to prescribe the way people speak, or simply,
to tell people how to speak and let people know the
correct way of their speaking )

*Secondly, traditional grammar pays more attention to
the written form of language, while linguistics attaches
more importance to speaking than writing.

*Thirdly, traditional grammar has been restricted mainly
to SYNTAX, that is, the way of words making patterns to
form sentences, while linguistics has a boarder scope for
researching, ex. Pragmatics, psycholinguistics,
sociolinguistics.

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There is no difference. All grammar is traditional. There is a
difference between formal or written grammar, which insists on
certain distinctions, as between who and whom, the
appropriate use of subjunctive and the indicative moods and
agreement of subject and verb, and informal or colloquial
grammar which does not. Modern English grammar, as the
description of modern English usage characteristic of people
under the age of forty, certainly suffers from the reduction of
distinctions, the loss of refinement and the tongue-tied
confusion of tenses and moods which is the inevitable result of
having its standards set by the most careless speakers rather
than by the most careful.
Traditional grammar doesn't let you write like you talk. It
doesn't, among other things, let you end a sentence with a
preposition or start a sentence with the word "and." Some
English teachers still insist that people comply with each and
every one of those archaic rules, but many writers have
accepted and even recommended the use of modern grammar
instead.

Traditional
grammar is a
framework for
the description
of the structure
of language.
Concepts
treated in Subj ect
traditional
grammars
include:

• The subject (abbreviated SUB or SU) is one of
the two main constitutes of a clause, according
to a tradition that can be tracked back to
Aristotle and that is associated with phrase
structure grammar; the other constituent is the
predicate. According to another tradition, i.e.
the one associated with predicate logic and
dependency grammars, the subject is the most
prominent overt argument of the predicate.
Both traditions see the subject in English
governing agreement on the verb or auxiliary
verb that carries the main tense of the
sentence, as exemplified by the difference in
verb forms between he eats and they eat.

The predicate in traditional grammar is inspired by
propositional logic of antiquity .A predicate is seen as a
property that a subject has or is characterized by. A
predicate is therefore an expression that can be true of
something. Thus, the expression "is moving" is true of
those things that are moving. This classical
understanding of predicates was adopted more or less
directly into Latin and Greek grammars and from there it
made its way into English grammars, where it is applied
directly to the analysis of sentence structure. The
predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the
other being the subject, which the predicate modifies).
The predicate must contain a verb, and the verb requires,
permits, or precludes other sentence elements to
complete the predicate.

An object in grammar is
part of a sentence, and
often part of the predicate.
It denotes somebody or
something involved in the
subject's "performance" of
the verb. Basically, it is
what or whom the verb is
acting upon. As an example,
the following sentence is
given:
"Bobby scored a goal", "a
goal" is the object.

A sentence is a grammatical unit consisting of
one or more words that bear minimal
syntactic relation to the words that precede
or follow it. A sentence can include words
grouped meaningfully to express a
statement, question, exclamation, request,
command, or suggestion.

In grammar an adverbial is a word (an adverd)
or a group of words (an adverbisl phrase or an
adverbial clause) that modifies or tells us
something about the sentence or the verb.
The word adverbial is also used as an
adjective, meaning 'having the same function
as an adverb'. Look at the examples below:
Danny speaks fluently. (telling us more about
the verb)

A clause typically contains at least a
subject noun phrase and a finite
verb. While the subject is usually a
noun phrase, other kinds of
phrases(such as gerund phrases)
work as well, and some languages
allow subjects to be omitted. There
are two types of clauses:
independent and subordinate
(dependent). An independent
clause demonstrates a complete
thought; it is a complete sentence:
for example, I am sad. A
subordinate clause is not a
complete sentence: for example,
because I have no friends.

A noun is a part of An adjective is a
'describing' word; the
speech typically
main syntactic role of
denoting a person, which is to qualify a
thing, place or idea. noun or noun phrase,
In linguistics, a noun giving more
is a member of a information about the
large, open lexical object signified.
category whose Adjectives are one of
members can occur as the traditional eight
the main word in the English parts of
subject of a clause, speech, although
the object, of a verb, linguists today
distinguish adjectives
or the object of a
from words such as
preposition.
determinerst hat
The syntactic rules for formerly were
nouns differ from considered to be
language to language. adjectives

A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax
conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence
(happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual
description of English the basic form, with or without the participle to,
is the infinitives. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in
form) to encode tense, aspect, mood and voice. A verb may also agree
with the person, gender and/or number of some of its arguments,
such as its subject, or object. In many languages, verbs have a present
tense, to indicate that an action is being carried out; a past tense, to
indicate that an action has been done; and a future tense, to indicate
that an action will be done.

A conjunction (abbreviated CONJ or
CNJ) is a part of speech that connects
two words, sentences, phrase,
clauses together. A discourse
connective is a conjunction joining
sentences. The definition may also be
extended to idiomatic phrases that
behave as a unit with the same
single-word conjunction (as well as,
provided that, etc.).

Despite the fact that traditional grammar
is informal, unscientific full of
contradictions and inconsistencies,
inexplicit, inadequate, and prescriptive
uneconomical and unwholesome and it
ignores spoken language, language
change, contemporary usage and all the
varieties of language. It is still crucial unit
of English language. It is not in so much
what traditional grammar actually tells us
about language that is the real worrying
factor as what it does not tell us. Thus
there is no need for whole scale change, it
surely needs to be mended rather than
ended.

Traditional grammar

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