poem '' The Jabberwocky" by Sir john Tenniel.?

Question

come with a strategy to show that this poem is infact grammatical.write the ansewr in about fifty words.tu will not be able to use everu verse so just choose one or two verses to make ur point

The jabberwocky by lewis carrol

Answer 1

I teach English as a second language and I have used this poem with advanced students to teach "context clues". You can imagine meanings to the words from the poem by looking at their position - nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc- It is a great way to teach students that you do not need to know the meaning of each word to make sense of a text.

Answer 2

You are wrong. Jabberwocky was written by Lewis Carroll (of Alice in Wonderland fame) John Tenniel provided the illustrations for most of Carroll's works.

Answer 3

The author is Lewis Carroll.

If your looking for grammar only, then the mimsical language used really doesn't matter. This peom leaves a lot to the imagination.

Answer 4

Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"


He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.


And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!


One two! One two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.


"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.


'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


It is perfectly grammatical, it's just that most of the words are created by Carroll and not from a dictionary. It's easy to tell which words are verbs, adjectives etc and all the verbs are in the correct tense and agree with their subjects, the word order is correct as well, you just have to guess at the meanings of the individual words, "slithy" for example is a mixture of "slimy" and "slithery" (I think).

I teach English as a foreign language and have used this in class because it's such a good text to use when teaching students to guess the meaning of words in context.

Answer 5

part of why this poem is grammatical is he follows the word formation rules - you can tell "toves" is plural because it has an "s" at the end, "Jabberwock" is a name becuase it is capitalized, etc.

He also uses normal words like "in" "the" and "for" instead of making up words for those, so the only nonsense words are really nounds, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.

Answer 6

How can we take so ungrammatical a questioner seriously?

Answer 7

BEWARE OF THE JABBERWOCKY (how 'bout NO)