PPT-Grammar: English II Spring 2011

1 Subjectverb agreement 2 Noun verb amp prepositional phrase 3 Modifiers Dangling amp Misplaced 4 Pronounantecedent agreement 5 Shifts in Tense amp Voice 123 Grammar 1. Education 453:10. How much do you remember?. Were you ever taught the rules of grammar?. (Rate yourself using a Likert scale from one to ten on your knowledge of English grammar.). Learning/teaching grammar in context….. and Constructionalization. Elizabeth Closs Traugott . traugott@stanford.edu. in collaboration with Graeme Trousdale. University of Santiago de . Compostela. , Oct. 16. th. 2012. 1. Outline. Some key points about construction grammar.. as . Adjectivals. Ed McCorduck. English 402--Grammar. SUNY Cortland . http://mccorduck.cortland.edu. As noted in the “Determiners and . Adjectivals. ” lecture, prepositional phrases can function as . Richard Hudson. British Library, July 2014. or: Does English grammar have a future?. 1. Main points. Grammar is old, international and big. It’s an . important part of education. for first language literacy. Richard Hudson. Royal Grammar School, Guildford. May 2014. 1. My main points. ‘Language’ includes English as well as Foreign. Linguistics is the science of language. Linguistics can be. i. nteresting. of English. Ed McCorduck. English . 402. --Grammar. SUNY Cortland . http://mccorduck.cortland.edu. . main units of analysis in descriptive grammar. word. phrase – made up of words or at least one word. Print . powerpoint. as slides for parents. Spellings objectives printed for parents as well as word bank from . curric. appendix. Quick ‘spotters’ guided. Spelling. , punctuation and grammar . parent workshop . Strategy. Adam . Lefstein. Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, United Kingdom. RQ: traces the trajectory of educational ideas through policy, curricular materials and enactment in the Examine current English policy regarding the teaching of grammar in primary schools, and its enactment in a Year 3 (8-year . Penny Ur. 2015. 1. This session. A. Some background research and theory. What is ‘correct’ grammar?. The importance of grammatical accuracy. ‘Implicit’ and ‘explicit’ grammar teaching. B. Classroom practice and materials. Land of Living Languages. English Grammar Uncloaked. William Moore. Grammar is made up of two major parts:. 1) A set of agreements or conventions about how words will be organized.. What is ‘grammar’ ?. UK Linguistics Olympiad Committee. Education Committee, Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Grammar teaching in English lessons. Why teach grammar?. To improve creative writing. To improve analytical writing and reading. Unit 6. Comparatives & Superlatives – study the grammar rules in the focus box on p67 & the review section on p74.. Vocabulary; talking about cities – you need to learn the vocabulary on p70 (and the correct spelling). English 402--Grammar. SUNY Cortland . http://mccorduck.cortland.edu. Recall from slides . 6. and . 7. of my chapter 2 “Form Classes” lecture that English . verbs. are described as having five distinct forms (also known as . Prepositional Phrases Ed McCorduck English 402--Grammar SUNY Cortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu prepositional phrase (PP) – a phrase (see slide 2 of the “Descriptive Grammar of English” chapter 2 lecture) whose head(word) is a member of the form class preposition (see the “Form Classes” chapter 2 lecture)