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Gramtica Inglesa I

Introduction

PRACTICE 2
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Leech et al (1982: 17) THIS CAN BE ADAPTED
1. Try to justify why the following statements are true or false:
(a)
(b)

The study of grammar must include the study of Latin.


Grammar can be seen as a set of rules which we follow when we
use language.
(c)
We can follow the grammatical rules of our native language
without knowing them consciously.
(d)
The study of grammar will improve your spelling.
(e)
Grammar only deals with the study of writing, because it originally
meant to write in Greek.
(f)
Children have to be properly tutored in their language if they are to
learn to speak grammatically.
(g)
Studying grammar involves learning how people should speak.
(h)
It is incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition.
(i)
American English is less grammatical than British English.
(j)
The way we speak depends, among other things, on our personal
characteristics.
(k)
The way we speak to friends is identical to the way we speak to
strangers.
(l)
Dialect is inferior to the standard language.
(m) Factory workers in the north and south of Britain differ more in
their speech than do doctors.
(n)
Whatever you can convey in speech, you can also convey in
writing.
(o)
All languages follow the same grammatical rules.
(p)
A sentence which is difficult to understand must be
ungrammatical.
Leech et al (1982: 17)
2. All of the sentences below have something wrong with them. Try to work out
what this is: THIS CAN BE ADAPTED
(q)

I can recommend this candidate for the post for which he applies
with complete confidence.
(r)
I aint going nowhere tonight.
(s)
We need more comprehensive schools.
(t)
To was or not to was, that be the ask.
(u)
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.
(v)
How are you, it has a long time that we dont have heard from you
again.

Gramtica Inglesa I

Introduction

(w)

I gave him the present that I had bought in the shop in which I had
met the man to whose house I went yesterday.
(x)
Him and me are going to the beach today.
(y)
Eggs should be stamped with the date when they are laid by the
farmer.
(z)
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
3. (Fiesta by Hemingway) Grammatical tests
Using substitution, expansion and reduction convert the selected phrases in the
following text into longer or shorter units as necessary. Optionally, You can also
try to transform some of them (transformation) if you feel this is possible.
(At the hotel) (I) paid (the driver) and gave (him) (a tip). (The car) was (full of
dust). (I) rubbed (the trunk) (through the dust). (It) seemed (the last thing that
connected me with Spain) and (the Fiesta). (The driver) started (the car) and
went (down the street). (I) watched (it) turn off to take (the road to Spain). (I)
went (into the hotel) and (they) gave (me) (a room). (It) was (the same room).( I)
had slept in when Bill and Cohn and I were in Bayonne.

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