A Critical Review of English Education (205)
Since 204 (plus some) days ago, we have picked out and been discussing the following sentence,
This is a pen.
which unfortunately has long been stigmatized as a typical one of the most unexpected utterances in daily spoken English.
However, isn’t this kind of statement a mere echo of others―perhaps? What’s more, isn’t it possibly just a unilateral blanket opinion?
With this awareness of the issue, we have been executing “factor decomposition” as follows in pursuit of acquiring a more penetrating vision to locate the latent problems involved:
imagination usefulness grammar pronunciation
Since forty-two days ago, we have concentrated on grammar factors again.
grammar (98)
First, there is often a “discrepancy” between a sentence’s “phonetic configuration” and its “syntactic structure.”
Watch the following video:
<http://raspberries.jp/t161.mp4>
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.
