Traditional grammarians made sure that all words served a single purpose.
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Grammar deals with two aspects of language, accidence and syntax. Accidence is mainly concerned with how individual words vary in form according to their grammatical function: e.g. book, books; write, wrote. This variation in form is known as inflexion.
While Syntax is concerned with how individual words are put together to make sentences. Therefore, all words can be classified into 9 categories: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections or exclamations. The sentence is a self-contained syntactical unit. It is traditionally divided into two parts: subject (that of which something is thought) and predicate (tells what is thought)
Reference: Soton (2008) “Introduction to traditional grammar” Retrieved 16th of March, from: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wpwt/notes/grammar.htm
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