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    There are several types of grammar that can be used to analyze and describe language. Descriptive grammar objectively describes a language's constructions, while prescriptive grammar focuses on correctness. Pedagogical grammar simplifies rules for language teaching. Reference, theoretical, and traditional grammars provide different perspectives on grammatical facts, individual language constructs, and historical attitudes. Comparative, generative, mental, performance, and transformational grammars also analyze language from unique angles. Ultimately, understanding grammar gives speakers and writers more control over constructing sentences and paragraphs.

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    There are several types of grammar that can be used to analyze and describe language. Descriptive grammar objectively describes a language's constructions, while prescriptive grammar focuses on correctness. Pedagogical grammar simplifies rules for language teaching. Reference, theoretical, and traditional grammars provide different perspectives on grammatical facts, individual language constructs, and historical attitudes. Comparative, generative, mental, performance, and transformational grammars also analyze language from unique angles. Ultimately, understanding grammar gives speakers and writers more control over constructing sentences and paragraphs.

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    There are several types of grammar that can be used to analyze and describe language. Descriptive grammar objectively describes a language's constructions, while prescriptive grammar focuses on correctness. Pedagogical grammar simplifies rules for language teaching. Reference, theoretical, and traditional grammars provide different perspectives on grammatical facts, individual language constructs, and historical attitudes. Comparative, generative, mental, performance, and transformational grammars also analyze language from unique angles. Ultimately, understanding grammar gives speakers and writers more control over constructing sentences and paragraphs.

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    Kinds of Grammar

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    There are several types of grammar that can be used to analyze and describe language. Descriptive grammar objectively describes a language's constructions, while prescriptive grammar focuses on correctness. Pedagogical grammar simplifies rules for language teaching. Reference, theoretical, and traditional grammars provide different perspectives on grammatical facts, individual language constructs, and historical attitudes. Comparative, generative, mental, performance, and transformational grammars also analyze language from unique angles. Ultimately, understanding grammar gives speakers and writers more control over constructing sentences and paragraphs.

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    The key takeaways are that grammar is important because it allows us to communicate about language and gives structure to types of words, and studying grammar gives insight into the human mind and language capacity.

    The six types are descriptive, pedagogical, prescriptive, reference, theoretical, and traditional grammar.

    Additional types include comparative, generative, mental, and performance grammar, as well as transformational and universal grammar.

    KINDS OF GRAMMAR

    Our research about what is grammar took us to “The


    Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar”. And
    we couldn’t agree more with their answer about why
    grammar is important. And it IS important because it
    makes it possible for us to talk about language. It gives
    names to types and groups of words. And this
    knowledge gives us a window into the amazing human
    mind and into its amazing capacity. Grammar is
    associated with what it is correct and what is not.
    (Nordquist: 2010)
     When we talk about grammar, we only
    think of all the set of rules that we learn
    in school. But according to David Crystal
    (citied by Jamison: n.d.) in The
    Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language,
    describes six types of grammar:
    1. Descriptive grammar - is an approach that
    describes the grammatical construction of a
    language, from a point of view of linguists. It is
    used to investigate a ‘corpus’ of spoken and
    written material.

    2. Pedagogical grammar – this is the kind of


    grammar we think about because it is used for
    teaching a FL or for raising awareness of the
    learners’ L1.

    3. Prescriptive grammar – focuses on the


    construction of language as certain people think it
    is or isn’t correct.
    4. Reference grammar – grammatical descriptions
    that can be used as reference for those interesting in
    establishing grammatical facts.

    5. Theoretical grammar – studies individual


    languages, and determines what the required construct
    is in order to do any grammatical analysis.

    6. Traditional grammar - summarizes the attitudes


    and methods found in the period before the advent of
    linguistic science.
    On the other hand, Dr. Richard Nordquist, Full Professor of English at
    the Armstrong Atlantic State University in Georgia, mentions about 10
    different ways of analyzing the structures and functions of language. For
    example:

    1. Comparative grammar – consists of the analysis and comparison of


    the grammatical structures of related languages.

    2. Generative grammar - refers to the unconscious knowledge of a


    speaker’s use of language.

    3. Mental grammar - is considered the generative grammar stored in the


    brain and which allows a speaker to use language in an understandable
    way.

    4. Pedagogical grammar – simplified grammar designed and used for SL


    instruction.
    5. Performance grammar - is a description of the way
    words are organized to form sentences and paragraphs.

    6. Transformational grammar - accounts for the


    constructions of a language by linguistic transformations
    and phrase structures.

    7. Universal grammar - is the system of categories,


    operations, and principles shared by all human
    languages and considered to be innate.

    8, 9 & 10 refer to reference, theoretical and traditional


    grammar, and these are mentioned in Crystal’s
    description.
    CONCLUSION

    We consider that the value of studying grammar is not


    exactly identifying exactly what kind of grammar it is,
    but that by understand how a language works, we get
    more control on the way words are put together into
    sentences, and then into paragraphs, helping us
    become more competent writers.

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