They are grammatical groups into which words are divided.
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What do you understand by traditional grammar?
It is an approach towards the study of language that was based on the study of ancient languages like Latin and Greek.
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The term "parts of speech" is the same as: word class or syntactic category
Yes. Those are the terms used in contemporary linguistics.
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What is the difference between grammatical gender and natural gender?
the former one is not tied to sex, the latter one, is.
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Give an example of agreement in a sentence and explain it.
Las casas son bonitas: In this example there is agreement among the article, the noun, the verb and the adjective. All of them are in the plural form. Gender.
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What is linguistic relativity?
...Structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language.
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What do you understand by prescriptive grammar?
A prescriptive grammar is a set of rules about language based on how people think language should be used. In a prescriptive grammar there is right and wrong la
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Articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives can be grouped into another class called "Determiners"
True.
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Mention some types of descriptive approaches:
Structural analysis, test-frames. Constituent analysis. Labeled and bracketed sentences.
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What do you understand by descriptive grammar?
Descriptive grammars do not give advice: They detail the ways in which native speakers use their language.
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What are constituents?
In English grammar, a constituent is a linguistic part of a larger sentence, phrase, or clause. For instance, all the words and phrases that make up a sentence.
