Sentences with phrase «grammatical features»

Taking it a step further, teachers design guided writing practice activities to focus on grammatical features that need attention.

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.

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).

Yet despite the impressive work of Premack and Patterson, their studies of language production by primates do not yet provide unequivocal evidence of the extent of the capacity of primates to understand the grammatical features of sentences.

«We found striking differences in the overall pattern of rates of change between the basic vocabulary and the grammatical features of a language,» explains Simon Greenhill of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, lead author of the study.

By separating story structure from language features, the authors were able to distinguish aspects of storytelling that might be shared across languages (i.e., story structure) vs. aspects of storytelling that require language - specific learning (i.e., grammatical features).

It also includes some of the grammatical features required for Year 3.

11 lessons focusing on creative writing; using images as stimulus, engaging texts and developing literacy and grammatical features for effect.

Children need to hear language — specific words or vocabulary, grammatical features, and so on — before making it their own.