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In this chapter your will learn:

1.	What is the Definition of Grammar?

2.	What are the sciences of the language?

3.	What is Philology?

4.	What are Phonetics and phonology?

5.	What is Etymology?

6.	What is the Division of word?

7.	What are the Reasons to study Parts of speech?

8.	What are eight uses of parts of speech to arrange words in a sentence?

9.	What are the Essential parts of a sentence?

10.	What is the Subject?

11.	What is the Predicate?

12.	What is Morphology?

13.	What is Syntax?

14.	What is orthography?

15.	What is semantic?

16.	What is pragmatic?

17.	English Grammar (Then and Now)

18.	What do you need to analyze and improve your language performance?

What is English Grammar?
Grammar is one of the several sciences of languages. Philology, the science of the history and creation of language, includes: phonetics, a science of articulate sounds; etymology, a science of word origins; and grammar, a science of how we use words.

We can define grammar as a "science of language" that has specific parts—and laws on how we use these parts in a sentence.

Grammar is simple. We can divide words into eight different groups, called "parts of speech."

The eight parts-of-speech are: Noun, Pronoun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Existing words and new words fall naturally into these groups. Grammar is the working out of this discovery.

To master grammar, you need to define the parts-of-speech before you can understand their uses.

A common question is, "Why do we have eight parts-of-speech? Why not seven or eleven?" The simple answer is because we have eight several uses to which we can arrange words in a sentence.

A sentence is a group of words so related that they express one complete thought.

Not every sentence has (or must have) all eight parts-of-speech.

The sentence, "Lisa won," states one complete thought with only two parts-of-speech, expressed in two words.

The sentence, "We are happy our football team won today," expresses one complete thought with eight parts-of-speech, expressed in eight words.

To express a complete thought, you must use at least two parts-of-speech. You can use ten, twenty, thirty, even a hundred words if you can make them work together.

The two essential parts of a sentence are:

1) the subject (what you talk about), and

2) the predicate (what you say of the subject).

Subject: The part of a sentence or clause that commonly indicates (a) what it is about, or (b) who or what performs the action

predicate   n.  Fundamental part of a sentence that contains a verb and provides details about the subject of a sentence (such as attributes, action, etc.) is called predicate. That's all you need to know to write correctly.

At its core, the term grammar refers to either the inherent structure of words and sentences (morphology and syntax respectively) in a language; or to the study and description of this structure, published as grammar rules in books about the language. Other approaches include more topics under the term grammar: orthography (spelling, punctuation and capitalization), semantics (word meanings), phonetics and phonology (sounds) and pragmatics (language use in context). We unconsciously use grammar all the time when we use language for speaking, listening, reading and writing. If we want to improve our English language abilities, there is no escape from addressing grammar issues. English Grammar: Then and Now The first stage of development of the English grammar started during the early 16th century. William Bullokar wrote and published a book entitled "Pamphlet for Grammar" in 1586. Nowadays, there are modern approaches to grammar, which bring it alive and relate it to our real life, outside of outdated grammar books containing endless lists of grammar rules. The older prescriptive grammar approach, used to have students theoretically analyze sentences for correctness in literary and religious texts, as if they were training to become linguists. This was based along the lines of the traditional approach to the instruction of ancient Latin and Greek, which were not even used in speech in the Middle-Ages onwards. The purpose was preserving the formal standard usage of these languages while treating grammar as a theoretically isolated area of study. This is now supplemented by the descriptive approach that looks at how people actually use grammar in real life conversations and texts using modern living languages. It acknowledges language change and various styles as acceptable, resulting in more than one way of saying things. Pedagogical grammar for language learning purposes teaches only those grammar rules relevant to successful practical communication themes like shopping, looking for a job or opening up a business. For example, the uses of the present perfect ( I have worked as...) for indefinite past events or events going from past to present are geared towards speaking about former work experience either during a spoken job interview or in a written letter of job application. Alternatively, perfect modal forms are used for a hypothetical discussion of alternative consequences to past actions ( could have done) or the expression of regrets on what may/should have been.

Grammar is therefore now seen, not merely as theory, but as an enabling tool for authentic language practice. As some rules still need to be taught formally, a balanced combination of all the approaches is the solution for using grammar effectively. Knowing basic grammar terms such as verb, noun, adjective, adverb, phrase and clause is important in order to be able to analyze and improve your language performance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.94.93.5 (talk) 16:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Writing Section
Writing Section is coming soon... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.29.163.238 (talk) 07:32, 6 June 2012 (UTC)