Traditional grammar

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In linguistics, a traditional grammar is a framework for the description of the structure of language. Traditional grammars are commonly used in language education.

Concepts treated in traditional grammars include:

• subject
• predicate
• object
• predicative (aka complement)
• adverbial and adjunct
• sentence
• clause
• phrase

• noun
• adjective
• determiner
• verb
• adverb
• preposition
• conjunction
• pronoun

See also

• Grammar
• Linguistic description
• Linguistic prescription
• Pedagogical grammar

External links

• "Introduction to traditional grammar". Wessex Parallel WebTexts, University of Southampton. http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wpwt/notes/grammar.htm.