'Form' and 'Function' are two extremely important concepts that you need to know about to fully understand how grammar works . Surprisingly, there is no overt reference to these terms in the UK National Curriculum.
'Form' refers to the category labels we use for the buildings blocks of grammar, i.e.word classes, phrases, and clauses. Consider the following sentence:
- My daughter bought a completely useless smartphone over the summer.
Scanning this sentence from the left to right we can label each individual word as follows:
- my: determiner
- daughter: noun
- bought: verb
- a: determiner
- completely: adverb
- new: adjective
- smartphone: noun
- over: preposition
- the: determiner
- summer: noun
All the word class labels above are referred to as grammatical from labels. Still talking about form, we can also say that:
- my daughter is a noun phrase
- a completely useless smartphone is also a noun phrase
- over the summer is a preposition phrase
This is example video about form and function
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