Beginners of English are ______ to make many grammatical errors in speech.
What is the relationship between the grammatical forms of a language and their communicative functions?
How I wish John knew how to apply grammatical rules properly and recognizes the fact that he is nearly always in the wrong.
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from
the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem 1.______
most obvious is that grammatical words have “less meaning”, but
in fact some grammarians have called them “empty” words as 2.______
opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather 3.______
misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the 4.______
is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being 5.______
meaningless; there is a sharp difference in meaning between “man
is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet theis the single vehicle of this 6.______
difference in meaning.
Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves
as the amount of meaning they have even in the lexical 7.______
sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little
words.” But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing 8.______
the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we have
lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from this, however, 9.______
there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly
do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is 10.______
illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of
telegrams and newspaper headlines.
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from
the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem 1.______
most obvious is that grammatical words have “less meaning”, but
in fact some grammarians have called them “empty” words as 2.______
opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather 3.______
misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the 4.______
is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being 5.______
meaningless; there is a sharp difference in meaning between “man
is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet theis the single vehicle of this 6.______
difference in meaning.
Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves
as the amount of meaning they have even in the lexical 7.______
sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little
words.” But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing 8.______
the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we have
lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from this, however, 9.______
there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly
do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is 10.______
illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of
telegrams and newspaper headlines.
The grammatical words which play so large a part in English
grammar are for the most part sharply and obviously different from
the lexical words. A rough and ready difference which may seem 1.______
most obvious is that grammatical words have “less meaning”, but
in fact some grammarians have called them “empty” words as 2.______
opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather 3.______
misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like the 4.______
is not the name of something as man is, it is very far away from being 5.______
meaningless; there is a sharp difference in meaning between “man
is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet theis the single vehicle of this 6.______
difference in meaning.
Moreover, grammatical words differ considerably among themselves
as the amount of meaning they have even in the lexical 7.______
sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little
words.” But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing 8.______
the grammatical words of English, when we consider that we have
lexical words as go, man, say, car. Apart from this, however, 9.______
there is a good deal of truth in what some people say: we certainly
do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This is 10.______
illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of
telegrams and newspaper headlines.