1. DPEG 4103 * TEACHING OF GRAMMAR * PN. SUHANA BINTI MOHAMED LIP
HAFIZUDDIN BIN MIZAN 1152014
MUHAMMAD ALI BIN ABD KARIM 1152016
IBNU SINA BIN TALIP 1152017
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2. Grammarconsist of a list of allthe well formed
sentencesin the language.
Some sentences go on and on.
Some sentences go on and on and on.
Some sentences go on and on and on and on.
Some sentences goes on and on and on and on and on.
Wh a t i s ‘l i s t a s
g r a m m a r s ’?

3. S o , w h a t i s t h e
p r o b l e m ?
The most obvious problem is the list will be too long.
There is no finite boundon the length of English sentences.
Another list will come out even with slight changes
on the sentences.
Human
brains are
finite and
cannot
store
infinite lists.
Sentences some go on and on.
Sentences some go on and on and on.
Sentences some go on and on and on and on.
Sentences some goes on and on and on and on and..

4. S o , i s t h e t h e o r y
r e l e v a n t ?A certain theory of grammar failsto capture a
linguistically significant generalizationis very common in
generative grammar.
If a characterizationof the way the language works lead to
redundancy and complications, it is assumed to be the
wrong characterization of the grammar.
There must be some more compact way of
encoding the grammatical knowledgethat
speakers of English possesses.