2007-12-04 17:50:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Grammar? What is the question?
2007-12-04 17:54:19 · answer #1 · answered by onparadisebeach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is best to stick to good language along with healthy uplifting traditional grammer. I will not even take the time to read what some people call traditional grammer. If the grammer may offend someone we should not use it. If the grammer is clean and fun, that's ok. I love to talk to people who do not use too many BIG words. I like it when language is easy flowing and simple enough for the average person to understand. Traditional grammer is used mostly when talking and not as much in writing.
2007-12-05 01:57:55 · answer #2 · answered by Suzie H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Traditional grammar in English predates a lot of modern analysis of language. Modern grammar analysis attempts to see patterns in HOW people use language rather than inventing rules about how people OUGHT to use it, the way traditional grammarians often did. The result is that many of the prescriptive rules some people swear by actually make no sense. There is no logical reason why a speaker of English should not double a negative, split an infinitive or end a sentence with a preposition, but neverthelesss many of us will avoid doing so for fear of being branded ignorant.
Traditional grammatical terminology such as simple present and simple past is very confusing to learners when they realise that 'past' tenses can refer to the present and 'present' tenses to the past. They then blame the grammar rather than the inaccurate terminology.
'Traditional grammar is mostly used in talking and not as much in writing' says the answer above. Actually, the opposite is the case.
2007-12-05 05:16:36 · answer #3 · answered by vilgessuola 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language derives from grammar and language can be shown in different ways such as body language which was the first. But if you talking about language it's mostly what some people know. It's learned from social, academic, and even from the interwebz. Don't forget region of where you live... Dialects wooo...
2007-12-05 01:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by Charles J 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure what you're asking. Could you clarify the question?
2007-12-05 01:53:45 · answer #5 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All relationships have their road bumps.
2007-12-05 01:53:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋