If the author intended to use ‘had’, then this is clearly ALSO a spelling mistake. As a reader we can conclude that either the author added the word ‘has’ incorrectly or they intended to use ‘had’ but typed ‘has’.
However, use of the wrong word can also be a spelling error.įor example: “She has made the soup the before going to be so should wouldn’t have to make it in the morning”. A language gets its structure from the grammar and it gets its words from the lexicon (the set of allowable words, or lexemes). This includes things like misplacing the object, subject or tense.
An error in sentence structure constitutes a grammar error. In a strictly mathematical sense, it’s all about context. Oh god, I can’t believe I am responding to this. There has to be another term for this kind of word misuse, but saying it contains a spelling mistake or a grammar mistake appears to be inaccurate. The words are all spelled correctly as well. Thus, if you used the word “cowl” instead of “cow” in a sentence such as “I’m going to milk the cowl.”, then this sentence both permissible because cowl is the subject of the sentence, it is a noun, and the sentence is well formed in terms of functions and word relations… it just happens to not make any sense. The Merriam-Webster website further defines grammar as Ī : the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentenceī : a study of what is to be preferred and what avoided in inflection and syntax Grammar – a device, as a body of rules, whose output is all of the sentences that are permissible in a given language, while excluding all those that are not permissible. When I look at the definition of grammar, I see several variances on the same theme, which is to say this The same can be said for the “You can breath easy” example detailed in this post. If, however, the sentence was “I have a jump for sale.” we can clearly see the word jump is a correctly spelled verb, which makes this a grammar error. For example “I have a cell fone for sale.” – The word fone is spelled incorrectly, but we can infer the intended word and the sentance still makes sense to us. not actual words), then the implied grammar, correct or not, really becomes irrelevant. If the word(s) used in the sentence are spelled incorrectly (i.e. Now it should be clear that the improper use of properly spelled words in the structure of a sentence is a grammar issue. A set of rules for or an analysis of this: “generative syntax”. tax /ˈsinˌtaks/ Noun: The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.Now let’s look at the definition of syntax. Using the above definition, we see that the structure of the sentence uses correctly spelled words, but the structure itself is wrong – specifically syntax. A particular analysis of the system and structure of language or of a specific language. mar /ˈgramər/ Noun: The whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology.To further this point, correcting for improper grammar would result in “Can I have cheeseburgers?” and I don’t think anyone would argue that the incorrect tense on has vs have is not a grammar issue… hence the entire sentence is a grammatical nightmare created using perfectly spelled words. That is a grammar issue no? It’s like “I can has cheeseburgers?” – all the words are spelled correctly, but grammatically it’s utter nonsense. The word is spelled correctly, just used incorrectly.
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