What is Grammar?

Here is the full version, with the grammar highlighted in bold. Looking at this text in
more detail, it is clear that grammar includes many different language areas.

Introduction

Earlier units have explored how teachers analyse grammar and lexis in texts and

coursebooks and different ways of reformulating and correcting student output. This
unit will focus on how to respond to learners’ grammatical needs. 

As the text in Task 2 shows, grammar can be viewed as ‘the glue that holds the
language together.’ Grammar refers to a range of structures, including:

 verb endings, e.g. –ed or –ing endings, 3rd person –s

 prefixes and suffixes or plurals e.g. reformulating, earlier, teachers
 auxiliary verbs, e.g. was, do and have
 articles, e.g. a, an and the
 dependent prepositions, e.g. at, to or of
 word order (syntax) e.g. Earlier units have explored, not Units earlier explored
have...

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