Topic: Semantic structure of the English words content

So what does this have to do with grammar?
Because language is how we connect with others, it’s also the way we often form our opinions about people. When you first meet a new person, the way he speaks (or writes or signs) is likely going to be your first impression of him. What if he used some of these phrases?
I’ve got y’all’s assignments here.
I might could climb to the top.
They’re fixing to go for a hike.
If you heard someone say these (and say them with a drawl), you would assume he is from the South or Texas. You may use this assumption to then apply stereotypes about Southern people and customs to this person as well. This kind of judgement may or may not be fair, but we all make these kind of judgements every day.
You can’t control what other people think about you and your language usage, but you can control how you present yourself in different situations.
Code-Switching
One of the challenges facing college writers is that the language used for academic purposes is quite different in style, shape, and tone than the language we use in other settings: our home lives, our professional lives, our religious lives, our romantic lives
You might have a feeling that the way you talk or write is “wrong.” That isn’t the case at all! All languages have their appropriate uses and settings. Your grandma would not be happy if you spoke in academic language as you’re sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table. Likewise, your professors aren’t happy when you bring Thanksgiving dinner conversation styles into written assignments for their classes.This is the idea of code-switching: that each of use moves between different variations of language in different contexts. Academic language is one variation, and it has a strict set of rules to follow. The rules of academic language will be explored in detail in this section.
About the Videos in this Module
You’ll quickly recognize a distinctive voice and format in the videos in this section of the course. Our narrator guide will be David, Grammar Content Fellow from the Khan Academy¹. He offers charming insights and a straightforward, encouraging approach to understanding our language in all its quirks.Some people feel that grammar is prescriptive; that is, it prescribes a set of rules telling you what is correct and incorrect at all times. However, because language usage changes over time, some people feel that grammar merely describes how people actually use a language, which implies there are gray areas in which more than one choice may be "correct."For instance, you may have heard that in correct grammar, you should not split infinitives (the basic form of a verb such as to be). A famous example is To boldly go where no man has gone before. However, this "rule" only goes back to the 19th century, when some linguists were trying to make the rules of English mimic the rules of Latin. Split infinitives in English were used for centuries before that.
This does not mean that any grammatical choice is acceptable
for, say, college papers or other kinds of formal writing. The best thing to do if you want to break a grammar rule in college is to find a book that says your choice is an acceptable alternative GRAMMAR
is the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general. It includes parts of speech (nouns, verbs, etc.), syntax (how words fit together to make sentences), and morphology (the forms of words); many people use the term "grammar" loosely so that it also covers punctuation, spelling, and word choice (as in, "Will you check my paper's grammar?").Most of it is already in your head.¹
You may not be able to tell someone what a subordinate clause or a conjunctive adverb is, but you have internalized grammar since you first learned to talk. You use it every time you speak or write, and you mostly use it correctly. If you really want, you can learn all the grammar rules from scratch, but most people find it more effective to concentrate on common errors and on resources you can consult when you have a question. This learning guide will concentrate on those things.
Construction of the qualification paper. It consists of introduction, two chapters, conclusion and the list of literature. Total amount of the work is 64 pages.