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A core presentation of one particular grammatical structure- Descriptions and examples draw upon the latest linguistics and applied linguistic research and include discussions of problems that ESL/EFL students regularly. | Chapter 5 Introduction to Phrase Structure Test your ability to apply what you know. 3. The following sentences contain errors commonly made by ESL EFL learners. How would you make the learners aware of these errors and what exercises or activities would you provide to help the learners correct the errors or avoid them in the future a. He took his brother yesterday to c. John ran for shelter because the store. was raining. b. Those woman are striking for peace. 4. What are the similarities and differences in the structure of the time adverbials in these sentences a. We ll eat at 10 o clock. c. I m going to Dallas next week. b. I ve studied English for ten years. I ve studied English ten years. 5. A student asks you why it s okay to say I went to school I went to church or I went to work but not okay to say I went to home. How will you answer this question Bibliography References Gattegno C. 1976 . The Common Sense of Teaching Foreign Languages. New York Educational Solutions Inc. Jacobs R. A. 1995 . English Syntax A Grammar for English Language. Professionals. New York Oxford University Press. Suggestions for further reading Other versions of the phrase structure miles for English can be found in the the last two references are less formal than the first three Akmajian A. and E Heny 1975 . Introduction to the Principles of Transformational Syntax. Cambridge Mass. MIT Press. Baker C. L. 1989 . English Syntax. Cambridge Mass. MIT Press. Culicover P. 1976 . Syntax. New York Academic Press. Keyser . and P. M. Postal 1976 . Beginning English Grammar. New York Harper and Row. Van Riemsdijk II. and E. Williams 1986 . Introduction to the Theory of Grammar. Cambridge Mass. MIT Press. Some good suggestions for teaching the order of adverbials are found in Danielson D. and P. Porter with R. Hayden 1990 . UsingEnglish Your Second Language 2d cd. . Englewood Cliffs NJ. Prentice Hall Regents see especially pp. 189-195 94 The Grammar Book Endnotes 1. .