Sentence examples for grammatical principles from inspiring English sources

Using real-world sentences rather than invented ones, One Day in the Life of the English Language gives students the motivation to apply grammatical principles correctly and efficiently.

Each part of speech has his own personality — prepositions are a gaggle of "little creatures," while Mr. Noun is a "stout big fellow, very well dressed" — and skirmishes between the characters illustrate dozens of basic grammatical principles.

Forms called śabda are Sanskrit items and have been described by grammarians, chiefly Pāṇini (c. 6th 5th century bce); these forms are language components that are said to be adorned or purified (saṃskṛta) by adhering to particular grammatical principles.

Just as we generate different, and mutually unintelligible, languages on the basis of universal grammatical principles, so, Hauser argues, there are deep moral "intuitions" that underlie cultural variations in social norms.

For linguists in the Chomskian tradition, the main theoretical task is to identify grammatical principles that provide the basic structure of human languages.

The innate UG was no longer viewed as a set of tools for inference; rather, it was conceived as a highly articulated set of representations of actual grammatical principles.

More recently, the Times of London (October 24, 2008) has characterized Everett's claim that 'Pirahã lack the grammatical principle of recursion' as an 'astonishing find'.

(The Geoff Pullum quote above is relevant to this point: The inadmissiblity of contracting the first occurrence of I am to I'm in "I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not" is not easily ascribed to any grammatical principle, yet based on positive evidence alone becomes part of our knowledge of English usage).

But for Forster, an unforgiving elitist despite his democratic principles, the grammatical errors committed by Bast's wife prove she is "bestially stupid".

Judah ibn Ḥayyuj and Abū al-Walīd Marwān ibn Janāḥ produced manuals on biblical grammar that applied the results of Arabic philology to their own tongue and provided the principles of Hebrew grammatical study down to modern times.

It has been pointed out that, in languages with a free word order (such as Czech or Latin), the theme tends to precede the rheme, regardless of whether the theme or the rheme is the grammatical subject, and that this principle may still operate, in a more limited way, in languages, like English, with a relatively fixed word order (compare "That book I haven't seen before").