Form and function (2)

GRAMMARIANISM

We saw in the blog post Form and function (1) that grammatical form and grammatical function are not always clearly kept apart in the National Curriculum.

Recall that ‘form’ refers to the category labels that we use for the building blocks of language, i.e. word classes (e.g. noun, verb, adjective, etc.), phrases (e.g. noun phrase, adjective phrase, etc.) and clauses (e.g. relative clause). By contrast ‘function’ refers to the grammatical functions (e.g. Subject, Object, Adverbial, etc.) that the various building blocks can perform.

In this blog post we’ll look at some further example of sentences analysed at the levels of form and function.

Consider the following sentences:

  • They closed the cinema last month.
  • The weather improved over the weekend.
  • He is an electrician.
  • The radio played a track that I love.
  • This class will visit a museum next week.
  • The paper has published the allegations.
  • The president hasn’t appeared on the…

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Jack of all trades, master of none

I always want to be a person who knows many things in different fields and can do many things well, and I still want to be such person. This is like an impossible thing, what I can do is (to) keep trying.

It takes times to master many things, to be specialized in one thing is more easy.

April, 1

 The charter named all the persons originally included in the corporation and gave them certain powers in the management of its af-fairs,including the right to admit new members.

这里including算介词，所以不能算非谓语， 非谓语有个特点，得有逻辑主语， including这里没有逻辑主语。including the right 是介词短语作状语。