Formulation of the Problem

7 subject-verb agreement like we was - makes the message less effective because the errors will distract from the intent. Understanding basic principle of word, sentence and paragraph structures bestows writers with the flexibility to plan how they communicate a message, from a simple text to a presentation. If people cannot successfully speak or write to one another, they cannot share their thoughts to other people. In Scientific Writing; Easy When You Know How, Peat states that Grammar is about knowing why something reads badly and knowing how to fix it. It is impossible to write well without using words correctly. 3 It means that, when people want to write something, they should know about grammar because it shows the meaning and relation with every single word that becomes a sentence. On the other hand, Harmer on his book says that Real language use is often very untidy and cannot be automatically reduced to simple grammar patterns. Students need to be aware of this, just as they need to be aware of all language possibilities. Such awareness does not mean that they have to be taught each variation and linguistic twist, however. It just means they have to be aware of language and how it is used. 4 From Harmers statement means that the students should aware about these rules that they learn as a target language, however, these enable them to communicate each other without creating misunderstanding and misinterpretation. They should not learn it deeply because when they communicate to other people especially in spoken, they just need to know how people understand about what they say. According to Radford, grammar is traditionally subdivided into two different but interrelated areas of study morphology and syntax. Morphology is the study of how words are formed out of smaller units called morphemes. And syntax is the study of the way in which phrases and sentences are structured out of 3 Jennifer Peat, Scientific Writing; Easy When You Know How, London: BMJ Books, 2002 p. 214. 4 Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching, New York: Longman Group, 1991, p. 23.

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