A General Comparison on Sentences Analysis and Its Teaching Significance between Traditional and Structural Grammars

Abstract

Grammar is familiar to all of us. We have learned grammar for many years. But now we come to a new field in which grammar is not exactly the same as before. Here we mainly talk about two kinds of them, traditional grammar and structural grammar. Traditional grammar, also called school grammar, is a type of grammar first developed in Europe in the eighteenth century, based on Aristotelian logic and ancient Greek and Latin Grammars, often as an aid to learning these languages and interpreting classical texts. When we talked about structural grammar, we should firstly look at the Structural Linguistics. The structural grammar is based on the theory of Structural Linguistics. Structuralism is a collective term for a number of linguistic approaches in the first half of the twentieth century, all based on the work of F. de Saussure, but strongly divergent from one another. Depending on theoretical preconceptions, the term ‘structuralism’ is used in several ways. In this essay we will make a general comparison between them, which could give us a better understanding about each of them.