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What Is Grammar?

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Grammar for Teachers

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This chapter is an overview of what grammar is. We examine what exactly “rules” of grammar consist of and consider these “rules” from two perspectives: prescriptive and descriptive. Throughout the chapter, you will exercise your knowledge as a native or highly proficient non-native speaker of English—knowledge that you may only have had until now, implicitly.

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    Note: An asterisk * before a sentence indicates an ungrammatical sentence.

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  1. New York University, New York, NY, USA

    Andrea DeCapua

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DeCapua, A. (2017). What Is Grammar?. In: Grammar for Teachers. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33916-0_1

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