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what conclusions can we draw about dialect and social status? Have them present an oral report on their findings. Have students ...

3 Traditional Grammar Prescriptive Grammar in Our Schools In nearly every instance, school grammar is traditional grammar. It is ...

high degree of knowledge to prevent inconsistency, and few people have the necessary degree of knowledge. That is, when teachers ...

comes time to write or utter that statement, the home dialect wins the competi- tion and one utters or writesFred and me went fi ...

Traditional grammar is not well suited to such mastery. It does not adequately meet the need of teachers or students for a means ...

function assubjects,adjectivesmodify(supply information to) nouns, and verbs establishpredicates. Form and function are related ...

The tree was tall. The worddogsis the agent of sentence 1. It performs the action conveyed in the wordbark.We also can say tha ...

Independent and Dependent Clauses. There are two major types of clauses:independentanddependent.One way to differentiate the two ...

more words functioning together as a unit that does not constitute a clause.On this account, the subject and predicate ofDogs ba ...

APPLYING KEY IDEAS Part 1 Directions: Examine the following sentences and identify the constituents of subject, verb phrase, obj ...

Nouns As noted earlier, subjects and predicates are related to nouns and verbs. Tradi- tional grammar defines a noun as a person ...

Typical Common Nouns car shoe computer baby disk pad elephant book star speaker politician movie picture telephone jacket ring b ...

The duplication of the proper nounsFredandMacarenajust does not sound right to most people because English generally does not al ...

however, do not rely so much on word order but instead alter the forms of the words to signify their relations. Japanese, for ex ...

Analysis of case can become complicated. In fact, linguists have a hard time agreeing on just how many cases exist in English. E ...

Nevertheless, it is important to consider that an equally troublesome prob- lem with case gets little attention. When someone kn ...

Teaching Tip The demonstrative pronoun “this” usually comes before a noun, but not al- ways. In certain situations, it replaces ...

Each otherandone anotherdo not mean the same thing; thus, they are not interchangeable.Each othersignifies two people or things, ...

Indefinite Pronouns Indefinite pronouns have general rather than specific antecedents, which means that they refer to general en ...

Becauseeverybodyis singular rather than plural, correct usage requires a sin- gular pronoun as well as a singular noun to provid ...