Talk:English grammar

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Arcticle perspective

As I've mentioned on the entry for Pronoun, we need to be careful here. The "parts of speech" model, as widely as it is used in primary and secondary schools -- and useful though it may be for those, such as copyeditors and editors, for whom consistency of writen form is a legitimate and vital concern -- is realy obsolete from the point of view of modern linguistics. We also need to be sure that, from the very start, a prescriptivist model is not implicitly given as the only or primary model. I would therefore propose that we use "word classes" instead of "parts of speech" as our model for subsidiary entries.

I've made some revisions in this direction to the opening paragraphs. Russell Potter 10:51, 18 April 2007 (CDT)