在《新视角英语语法》一书中,程教授举例子很详细地分门别类地讲述了原因。
首先,是你我熟知的,语法使我们在表达中使用正确的语言形式;是规范语言形式的正确、准确与否的标准和规则。
其次,语法最重要的价值是帮助我们组织思维、生成思想、创造并表达意义;使表达的意义更有效、更准确、更有创造性。
语法帮我们说出想说的话。简单的思想用简单的结构来表达,复杂的思想用复杂的结构来表达。Peter is a boy who is clever.不合适。因为可以直接说,Peter is a clever boy. Yesterday I saw a teacher on the street who taught me English twenty years ago.
It is Tom who broke the vase.
语法是表达意义的资源。Mindful persons always knows about what they are doing.
语法帮助我们提高表达的准确性。例子:Are you married?No,but I have one girlfriend.这个表达是错的,应用a,含义差别大。
语法帮我们创造性地表达。如拟人、夸张、讽刺、幽默等常借助语法手段实现。I teach with students.(I teach students.的隐藏)
萧伯纳与丘吉尔。I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;bring a friend——if you have one.
Cannot possibly attend first night;will attend second——if there is one.
总之,我们把语法作为判断语言形式正确与否的标准。还要将语法视为建构和组织思想、表达思想和情感、与他人交流互动、创造连贯的语篇的工具和手段,讲语法系统视为一个表达意义的工具箱可以从工具>
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