In all cases, though, the rules were merely rough models for incompletely understood mental processes. Others were cancelled out by actual changes in spoken language over time. Most of the grammatical explanations were reasonable at the time they were created, but some have been discredited by subsequent discoveries about language. The fact is that such rules were created by linguists in order to explain language phenomena that had already existed for thousands of years. With grammar rules so complicated and hard to use, you may wonder why we have them at all. In any case the verb must also be inflected for first, second, or third person to agree with the pronoun. But if it is transitive, it needs an object, or if it is copulative, it needs a complement. The verb I choose can be transitive, intransitive, or copulative. If I choose a pronoun, it can be singular or plural, but it must be inflected for first, second, or third person.
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The noun phrase can be made up of a singular noun plus a determiner, a plural noun, a proper noun, or a nominative case pronoun. To say what I mean, I need a noun phrase and a verb phrase. Imagine trying to apply them consciously following the rules of English grammar. To construct a simple two-word sentence, such as “He dreams,” requires the application of at least seven grammar rules. If, instead, we had to apply those rules consciously, they would only get in our way, making it impossible for us to speak or write at all. This story is but one illustration of what happens most of the time in language usage we construct grammatically correct sentences or correct our mistakes by intuitively applying the rules that govern English syntax. Neither she nor any other child in the classroom could have stated, “Sentence elements of equal grammatical rank should be expressed in parallel constructions.” Yet, all of them subconsciously knew that principle of English grammar and were able-most of the time-to demonstrate it in their speech and writing. In reading her essay one girl said, “In the United states we celebrate Christmas by giving and receiving gifts and sing Christmas carols.” Immediately, another girl in the group interrupted her, saying, “That word should be singing.” The interesting thing for me was not that the second girl was absolutely right, but that she was right without knowing why. The children were helping each other to correct errors and make meaning clearer. Many years ago, while visiting a grade 4/5 classroom in the school where I was principal, I listened to a group of children reading aloud the first drafts of essays they had written about various holidays celebrated in America. This post is written by Joanne Yatvin, NCTE’s P12 policy analyst for Oregon.
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