If we are English teachers, grammar is an aspect that we teach everyday, and is the starting point for our students to learn the new language. When a teacher teaches grammar, he does by combining, changing and organising parts of words in order to give a meaning to this organisation. The Oxford University teacher Bede Rundle, in his book Grammar in Philosophy (1979) explains us that grammar is the set of some structural rules, commanding a composition of words and phrases in a natural way. For the same author, grammar is also the study of rules involving a syntax. The writer Richard Nordquis defined Grammar, in the web article Glossary of grammatical and rethorical terms (2016) as a set of rules and examples dealing with syntax and words tructures of a language, and a example includes the following sentences: I watch TV (subject - verb - complement); the red house ( article- adjective- noun).
Since I started to work as English teacher, I have always found to teach grammar as the most needed aspect for learners of a second or a foreign language. Grammar helps them how to express their own examples, how to structure sentences, how to introduce themselves, how to greet, and I also realized that teaching grammar helps my students to develop their Listening skill, Reading skill and Writing skill.
References:
Rundle, B. (1979) Grammar in Philosophy.
Nordquis, R. (2016) Glossary of grammatical and Rethorical terms.
Lunding, L. (2007) The power of prepositions.
https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/what.htm
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grammar
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