Filología Inglesa

SYNTAX
Objective
Learn the main purpose of the study of grammar and composition for translation professionals.
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Purpose
The study of grammar and composition should focus on their utility.

Grammar

Usage Conventions

Mechanics
Communication
Subordinated to the task of writing

Orderly Effective

Communication of Ideas

Proper - Improper
How it Works?

Identify Apply In writing

The Study of Language…
…is viewed as it
…is used
..should be used
Practice:
Select one of the abstract nouns below and in a paragraph explain what the idea represented by the noun means
to you. Please use concrete nouns rather than abstract nouns for the description
For example: Freedom: Freedom is driving my vehicle in the road alone where the ways can take me to any
destiny.
Try yourself with these:
Independence Hope
Loyalty Truth
Achievement Integrity
Grammar
Grammar is the analysis of the various elements of syntax that allows us to communicate.

Parts of Function
Speech Within the
sentence
Central
Element
The Expresses our
Sentence thoughts Phrases

Clauses
We know…
Every sentence has a: Subject is: About something is said
◦ Subject and a
◦ Predicate Predicate is: Says something about subject

Words of the language can:

Be classified according to how they contribute to one or the other of these elements.
Interrelationship
❑Show how we express our thoughts in syntactically
Grammar structured forms (sentences) that are understandable.
It is descriptive

Clear thinking

❑Precision in wording
Usage and Mechanics ❑Safeguards in format to make clear their intended
meaning.
❑Rules of subject-verb agreement
❑Pronoun-antecedent agreement It is prescriptive
❑Punctuation
Clear expression
❑Capitalization
Examples: of wrong use of language