영어시험 학습서에 나타난 문법 분류 체계와 용어에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This paper examines the grammar classification of the TOEIC textbooks, which classify grammar based on five types of sentence patterns and eight word classes according to traditional grammar, and proposes to analyze sentences by introducing 'complement' for essential elements and 'adjunct' for optional elements in the grammatical function category, and to classify determinative as an independent word class. This has the advantage of improving learners' understanding of sentences by making it easier to analyze sentences for obligatory and optional elements, and reducing the confusion of describing grammatical function categories with terms from word classes such as adverbs (phrases) for optional elements. In addition, by categorizing determinative as an independent word class, it is possible to explain the definite and quantitative features of determinative and indicate the finiteness and indefiniteness of noun phrases. Through the study of determinative, learners can understand the finiteness of nouns and avoid grammatical errors. Also, the grammatical explanations in the TOEIC textbooks have explanatory validity through their congruence with modern descriptive and theoretical grammars.