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THE ROLE OF

GRAMMAR
JAMES C. Contrastive Analysis. London, 1980.

BROWN R. A First Language. Cambridge


University Press, 1973.

Grammar is the sound,


structure, and meaning system Students who are native
of language. All languages speakers of English already
have grammar, and each know English grammar. They
language has its own recognize the sounds of
grammar. English words, the meanings of
those words, and the different
ways of putting words together
to make meaningful sentences.
It is generally
accepted that there
are four language In linguistics, grammar
skills: Speaking, is the set of structural
Listening, Reading and rules which influences
Writing. the composition of
clauses, phrases, and
words in any given
language.
The nature of grammar is better
understood in the light of discriminating
the two planes of language — the plane
of content and the plane of expression.
The two planes are inseparably Grammar is one of the main
connected. Grammatical elements of linguistic disciplines which
language present a unity of content and studies the grammatical system
expression or a unity of form and of language. The grammatical
meaning
system is the whole set of
regularities determining the
combinations of words in the
formation of utterances.

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