ENGLISH GRAMMAR QUESTIONS
 
 

QUESTION 1 - DO WE REALLY NEED THIS SYNTAX?

GREEN LEAVES
Date: October 07, 2014
Q1: ". . . do we really need this syntax? I believe syntax is a useful reference-instrument to the ESL students. To us however, it seems more like an extra-burden to learn syntax in addition to morphology.

I can't understand why morphology shouldn't be perfectly sufficient . . ."

From:  D H T - Dallas, Texas, USA
A1: Morphology studies the "forms" of the words, and also "(local) structures" of words. Sentence Syntax analyses the "functions" of the words, though only within the restrictive syntactic sentence frame. It should be clear that Morphology and Sentence Syntax complement each other. Let's see a practical example.

     Oh, how nice of you!

There is no sentence above, therefore we cannot perform a syntactical analysis; however, we can perform a morphologic analysis. On the other hand, when previous expression becomes:

     Oh, it is so nice of you!
or
     Oh, it
is so nice of you to come!

Grammatical function of the morphologic pronoun "of you" cannot be evaluated correctly without knowing its corresponding syntactic function.

Grammar helps a lot ESL students, and the native ones as well. It happens in English (same as in any other language) that words have "grammatical meanings", "grammatical forms", and "grammatical functions". Therefore, the people to master such complex grammatical aspects are the ones to write our Laws, the contracts we work with, good books or, to a lesser level, even the very good resumes! Considering the other side, without grammar we have no good Laws, no beneficial contracts, no good books and, naturally, not sufficiently good Resumes, so . . .

Fact is, a good command of grammar is a must today, anywhere on the Planet.
 
 
 
 
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