How do you present a grammatical and lexical analysis of a piece of prose? Examples please.?

Question

I've just begun an Adult Literacy Tutors course, (Level 4) We are a combined ESOL and Literacy tutors group and this is our first assignment. We've had a two hour 'discussion' about grammar, which brought back vague memories from schooldays. I do not have a clue where to begin with this. I've emailed the tutor and asked for an exemplar but so far, no reply.

Answer 1

"lexical" refers to the words/vocabulary so I suppose you have been asked to examine both the grammar and the vocabulary in the text.

Using your question as an example:

This text is comprised of two questions of which the first is written in full and the second is in an abbreviated form. In the first question it is addressed to "you" which is presumed to represent the second person plural as in a general question addressed to everybody.....etc etc

I'm only guessing but I do teach English as a foreign language so this is at least an informed guess! It would help if you told us the context - is this for a literature degree or a foreign language? I think the answer would differ accordingly.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

these rhymes do not, not all poetry is supposed to rhyme ,but what of the poet, that abides within us all, do you not pay lip service, or make a point, your verse entitled, The bumble wasp, was to say the least, ''different''

There was a young man from dundee
who got stung on the neck by a bee
when i asked ''did it hurt''
he said No he could do it again ,if it liked.

this verse lets all the others down it is not a race against time , get the grammar correct and the remainder will follow. LF

Answer 3

Lexical set: words that are habitually used within a given environment constitute a lexical set. Thus 'Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...' form a lexical set. sorry not much help but at least some( I hope)