2. English Grammar & Your Life English Grammar & Your Life Chun-yin Doris Chen National Taiwan Normal University

3. Grammar Why? What? How?

4. Why do we need grammar? A word = a man Our world: traffic lights  a peaceful life Their world: rules  beautiful sentences

5. What is grammar? Word Classes Grammatical Roles Construction Types Sentence Types

6. Word Classes Everyone has his personality. Every word has its characteristics. big classes vs. small classes

7. N– apple, pen, book, … V– eat, come, sleep, … Adj.– good, tall, smart, … Adv. – yesterday, here, slowly, …

8. Prep. – in, on, at, … Art. – a, an, the Conj. – and, or, but, … Interj. – wow, oops, oh, …

9. Grammatical Roles S John is reading. O John has a good friend. C John looks happy.

10. Construction Types Construction: making friends with others Our society: 1 (an individual) 1+1= 2 (a small group) 2+2= 4 (a big group)

11. Their society: 1 (a word) 1+1= 2 (a small group= a phrase) 2+2= 4 (a big group= a sentence)

12. NP– a book, that boy, … VP– eat an apple, study English, sleep, … Adj. Phrase– very funny, so sad, … Adv. Phrase – very quickly, very fast, …

13. Sentence Types Simple Eric is sleeping. Compound Eric is sleeping but his brother is reading. Complex Eric is sleeping because he is sick.

14. How to learn grammar? attitude (total=?) a:1 t: 20 i: 9 u: 21 d: 4 e: 5 Answer: _____________

15. Tag-questions You have a new boyfriend, …..? You don’t really love him, …..? He is poor, ….? He is not handsome, …..? He can’t buy you diamonds, …..? Bread is more important than love, …..?

16. You will not be happy with him, …..? He doesn’t really care about you, ….? But I really care about you, …..? You should come back to me, ….? You can’t live without me, …..?

17. About Connectives- - and, or, but Keeping healthy... young is what we need. Eat vegetables … fruit every week. Drink more water … not tea. A nice day is coming, we believe.

18. How many “if clauses” are there? If I could reach the star you would be the first one I give it to No matter how far I don’t want to see you blue If it were not for you my life would not be complete Days on the earth are so few and I’m so glad we could meet

19. The End! The End! The End!