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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