This document provides a lesson plan for an 8th grade English class. The learning objective is for students to learn about syntax and how to use it in their writing. The teacher defines syntax as the grammatical structure of sentences and provides examples of how rearranging words can change the syntax. The document also explains the difference between syntax, which refers to structure, and diction, which refers to word choice.
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Syntax and Diction
Definition about Syntax and Diction
Difference between Syntax and Diction
This document provides a lesson plan for an 8th grade English class. The learning objective is for students to learn about syntax and how to use it in their writing. The teacher defines syntax as the grammatical structure of sentences and provides examples of how rearranging words can change the syntax. The document also explains the difference between syntax, which refers to structure, and diction, which refers to word choice.
This document provides a lesson plan for an 8th grade English class. The learning objective is for students to learn about syntax and how to use it in their writing. The teacher defines syntax as the grammatical structure of sentences and provides examples of how rearranging words can change the syntax. The document also explains the difference between syntax, which refers to structure, and diction, which refers to word choice.
Learning objective: Students will be able to learn about syntax and use it in their writing. What is syntax?
Syntax is the grammatical structure of sentences. The format in
which words and phrases are arranged to create sentences is called syntax. Examples of Syntax :
The boy jumped happily.
The boy happily jumped. Happily, the boy jumped.
By rearranging just one word in the sentence, a varied syntax is
formed. Difference between Syntax and Diction • What is the difference between syntax and diction? • What is diction? • Syntax and diction are closely related but they are different concepts in grammar and in Diction is word choice. literature. The following examples have similar syntax but different diction. • The boy jumped happily. • The girl sang beautifully. • The dog barked loudly. • Each of these sentences has the same syntax. Each sentence follows the structure of subject- verb-adverb. But each sentence uses different diction (word choice). Any question?