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    Children acquire language in a non-conscious way through exposure, while adults learn grammar formally and consciously when learning a new language. Grammatical rules are not a focus for children, but adults put significant effort into mastering rules. Grammar operates at the morphology and syntax levels. Morphology involves combining morphemes into words, and syntax combines words into phrases and sentences to express complex meanings. Grammar describes and analyzes linguistic structures and considers a sentence to be the longest complete unit for analysis, usually marked by punctuation in writing.

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    Children acquire language in a non-conscious way through exposure, while adults learn grammar formally and consciously when learning a new language. Grammatical rules are not a focus for children, but adults put significant effort into mastering rules. Grammar operates at the morphology and syntax levels. Morphology involves combining morphemes into words, and syntax combines words into phrases and sentences to express complex meanings. Grammar describes and analyzes linguistic structures and considers a sentence to be the longest complete unit for analysis, usually marked by punctuation in writing.

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    Children acquire language in a non-conscious way through exposure, while adults learn grammar formally and consciously when learning a new language. Grammatical rules are not a focus for children, but adults put significant effort into mastering rules. Grammar operates at the morphology and syntax levels. Morphology involves combining morphemes into words, and syntax combines words into phrases and sentences to express complex meanings. Grammar describes and analyzes linguistic structures and considers a sentence to be the longest complete unit for analysis, usually marked by punctuation in writing.

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    The Nature of Grammar

    in Language Learning
    Children and Adults Learning
    language gain their linguistic
    competence with intriguing and yet
    amazing differences: children are
    not conscious of the grammar, while
    adults, especially those learning a
    foreign language, exert so much
    effort learning the grammar of
    “that” language.
    CHILDREN VS ADULTS
    LEARNING
    CHILDEN
    ADULTS
    ◘ Children learn in a non-
    ◘ Adults learn through formal
    conscious assimilation of instruction and conscious
    a language mainly through comprehension.
    first hand exposure.
    ◘ A subconscious or non- ◘ Relatively deliberately done
    through conscious process.
    conscious process.
    ◘ Doesn’t care about ◘Puts enormous effort in learning
    grammar rules. the grammar rules of a language.
    To most linguistics, grammar serves to
    understand and describe the systematic
    properties of the linguistic code for the varieties
    of every language. Some define grammar as a
    set of elements and rules from which every
    sentences of a language can be generated.
    Linguists conceive of several grammars for
    each language, one for every social or regional
    variety having its own set of rules. The linguist
    that if a sentence conforms to the rules of any
    variety of English, then it is grammatical in
    English.
    ◉   Grammar operates at two levels:Morphology and
    Syntax.

    ◉ Morphology deals with combining the smallest units


    of meaning (morphemes) into words. The word car is a
    morpheme, since it cannot be decomposed into smaller
    units. The plural marker- s is also a morpheme.

    ◉ Syntax is the combination of words into phrases (‘on


    my way’), clauses (‘because the car broke down’ ), or
    sentences (‘I’m now on my way although because the car
    broke down,I’ll be two hours late. )
    In The appearance of even rudimentary syntax signals
    crossing of a linguistic application because it makes the
    expression of complex meaning possible. Once a child
    could only say “milk”- leaving his parents to figure out
    whether she meant “The milk spilled on my shirt”,
    “that’s milk I’m drinking, all right,” “You drink some
    milk with me,” or “I want more milk.” Even a child
    two-word utterance like “Milk shirt”, “Drink milk” or
    “More milk” constitute a giant, though still incomplete,
    step towards disambiguating meaning.
    Grammar is concerned with description and analysis of structures that may be abstracted
    from stretches of utterance. Traditionally the longest structure within which a full
    grammatical analysis is possible has been taken as the “sentence.” By definition, a
    sentence is grammatically complete. It may therefore, be preceded and followed by
    indefinite pause or silence, together with those phonetic features associated in each
    language with pre-pausal position; it is usually marked in writing by final punctuation, full
    stop, question mark, exclamation mark, or semicolon.
    Grammar is concerned with description and analysis of structures that may be abstracted
    from stretches of utterance. Traditionally the longest structure within which a full
    grammatical analysis is possible has been taken as the “sentence.” By definition, a
    sentence is grammatically complete. It may therefore, be preceded and followed by
    indefinite pause or silence, together with those phonetic features associated in each
    language with pre-pausal position; it is usually marked in writing by final punctuation, full
    stop, question mark, exclamation mark, or semicolon.

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