This document discusses various grammatical features of language. It defines grammatical features as the elements that words can be broken down into, such as number, person, and tense. It then provides examples of special grammatical features like register, which determines what is appropriate in certain contexts. Collocations are discussed as words that commonly go together, like "stiff wind." Learning collocations is important for natural speech. Word class or parts of speech are also covered, with examples like nouns and verbs.

1. SPECIAL GRAMMATICAL
FEATURES
Gabriela García
Martha Siza
Jessica Duchi
Erica Saigua

2. WHAT ARE GRAMMATICAL
FEATURES?
In attempting to understand language,
many researchers use features, the
elements into which linguistic units, such
is words, can be broken down.
Examples of features are NUMBER
(singular, plural, dual, ...), PERSON (1st,
2nd, 3rd), and TENSE (present, past,etc)

3. SPECIAL GRAMMATICAL FEATURE
We can teach certain
grammatical features to
make the meaning clear.

4. REGISTER
What is appropriate in certain
circumstances.
Example:
I dislike to play basketball. (It is
incorrect)
I dislike playing basketball.

5. COLLOCATIONS
Words that naturally go together. A collocation is a
combination of words that are commonly used
together; the simplest way of describing
collocations is to say that they ‘just sound right’ to
native English speakers. Other combinations that
may mean the same thing would seem ‘ unnatural’.
Collocations include noun phrases like ‘ stiff wind’
and‘weapons of mass destruction’, phrasal verbs
such as‘to get together’ and other stock phrases
such as‘the rich and famous’
It is important to learn collocations, because they are
important for the naturalisation of one’s speech.
Besides, they broaden one’s scope for expression.

6. EXAMPLES:
• Do me a favour
• Do the cooking
• Have a bath
Have a drink
• Break a leg
Break a promise

7. WORD CLASS
Parts of Spech.-Group of
words that are used in a
certain way.
All words belong to
categories called word
classes (or parts of speech)
according to the part they
play in a sentence.

9. EXAMPLE
Example:
Love = Noun = Abstract

10. Bibliography
http://www.englishleap.com/vocabula
ry/collocations
http://forum.wordreference.com/show
thread.php?t=1045017&langid=24
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/wo
rds/word-classes-or-parts-of-speech

11. THANK
YOU