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Download full textMayher, John Sawyer – 1968
Transformational grammar offers the most adequate system by which to meet the goal of grammar instruction, which is to increase the student's understanding of the nature of language. This grammar attempts to explain the mental processes underlying the production and understanding of sentences, to describe linguistic competence, to construct…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Educational Objectives, English Instruction, Generative Grammar
