A Critical Review of English Education Part 9 (50)

For the past 457 days (cf. https://note.com/real_hare9943/n/n3e580aa008eb), 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

Today, we will continue considering grammar factors. Enjoy!

　 grammar (348)

First, there is often a “discrepancy” between a sentence’s “phonetic configuration” and its “syntactic structure.”

Watch the following video:

https://templatematching.jp/t414.mp4

Well, we are running out of time. So, let’s call it a day. Thank you for watching! See you tomorrow, friends! Have a great one!

I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

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