Traditional Grammar

In linguistics, traditional grammar is a theory of the structure of language based on ideas Western societies inherited from ancient Greek and Roman sources. The term is mainly used to distinguish these ideas from those of contemporary linguistics. In the English-speaking world at least, traditional grammar is still widely taught in elementary schools.

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|1 History |
|2 Key concepts |
|3 Controversy |
|4 References |

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Traditional grammar is not a unified theory that attempts to explain the structure of all languages with a unique set of concepts (as is the aim of linguistics). There are different traditions for different languages, each with its own traditional vocabulary and analysis. In the case of European languages, each of them represents an adaptation of Latin grammar to a particular language.

[edit] Key concepts

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Traditional grammar distinguishes between the grammar of the elements that constitute a sentence (i.e. inter-elemental) and the grammar within sentence elements (i.e. intra-elemental).
Concepts of inter-elemental grammar for the English language • subject • predicate • object • predicative (aka complement) • adverbial and adjunct • sentence • clause • phrase
Concepts of intra-elemental grammar for the English language • noun • adjective • determiner • verb • adverb • preposition • conjunction • pronoun

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The term is mainly used to distinguish these ideas from those of contemporary linguistics, which are intended to apply to a much broader range of

References: | |literature, you should consult  a reference work using a more recent analytical model; two approachable examples are the Collins | | |Pocket English Grammar (London: HarperCollins, 1992), and David Crystal 's Rediscover Grammar (London: Longman, rev