© 2007 Steve Campsall
© 2007 Steve Campsall
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grammar and your course |
In one very important way, you are already a grammar expert. It's a fact. You must be, because when you speak and write you use complex and precise grammatical constructions; and you do so without giving them a thought. For your course, there's a difference, for you'll need to be able to apply that very same grammar but now as an analytical tool. And, yes, you've guessed it, this means learning a number of important grammatical ideas and terms. But not too many!
And you're in luck. Englishbiz grammar essentials is about to turn you into something of a grammatical analysis expert. Whoops! There we go, exaggerating again. Okay, what we will do is try to help you through your school course. Good enough? (And anyway it's free!)
By the end of this guide, you'll be able to label and discuss the effects and purposes of some of the more important grammatical choices that different writers and speakers make when creating texts for various contexts, audiences and purposes.
TIP! Don't fall into the trap of thinking you have analysed the grammar of a text when all you have done is labelled the grammatical function of a few of its words, e.g. 'This is a noun'. This gains no marks.
What you need to
do is both label
and discuss the stylistic
effects created by particular grammatical choices.
