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“Basic English Grammar” and Section 2 “Eight Parts of Speech” (The twelve…
“Basic English Grammar” and Section 2 “Eight Parts of Speech”
Why grammar matters
Some errors are judged
judgement is based on the value that educated native speakers in our English-speaking society have assigned to certain errors
English speakers as a group tend to recognize that certain errors seem to be made more often by uneducated speakers who are in a lower socio-economic group
The language that 1 use in telling a joke to a good friend has a different tone, vocabulary, and level of formality than when I am writing a document for publication
You HAVE you know the difference
Common grammar errors made by native speakers
Distinction of who and whom
Who is a subjec
whom is an object
Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar
Prescriptive grammar prescribes, or dictates, exactly what should or should not be said or used
Descriptive grammar describes how the language is actually being used
Why parts of speech matter
eight parts of speech
Adverb
Conjunction
Preposition
Verb
Pronoun
Noun
interjection
adjective
The twelve english verb tenses
Past simple
Present simple
future simple
Present perfect
Past perfect
future perfect continuous
Future perfect
Future continuous
Past continuous
Present continuous
Present perfect continuous
Past perfect continuous