Taking it a step further, teachers design guided writing practice activities to focus on grammatical features that need attention. (brown.edu)
While most linguists have assumed that such a distinctive grammatical feature must have been driven to dominance by some selective pressure, the Penn team's analysis questions that assumption. (sciencedaily.com)
They were scored for the number of total words they used, the number of distinct words used, and two indicators of narrative quality: story structure score (inclusion of appropriate story elements and sequence) and language score (clarity and complexity of grammatical features in the story). (gse.harvard.edu)