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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.
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
What do you understand by descriptive grammar?
Descriptive grammars do not give advice: They detail the ways in which native speakers use their language.
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.
What are parts of speech?
They are grammatical groups into which words are divided.
The term "parts of speech" is the same as: word class or syntactic category
Yes. Those are the terms used in contemporary linguistics.
Articles, quantifiers, possessives and demonstratives can be grouped into another class called "Determiners"
True.
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.
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.
What is the difference between grammatical gender and natural gender?
the former one is not tied to sex, the latter one, is.
Mention some types of descriptive approaches:
Structural analysis, test-frames. Constituent analysis. Labeled and bracketed sentences.
