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In [[linguistics]], '''traditional grammar''' is a framework for the description of the structure of language based on ideas developed in Western societies.

==Key concepts==

Traditional grammar distinguishes between the grammar of the elements that constitute a sentence (i.e. inter-elemental) and the grammar within sentence elements (i.e. intra-elemental).

'''Concepts of inter-elemental grammar''' for the English language

* [[subject (grammar)|subject]]
* [[predicate (grammar)|predicate]]
* [[object (grammar)|object]]
* [[predicative (adjectival or nominal)|predicative]] (aka complement)
* [[adverbial]] and [[adjunct (grammar)|adjunct]]
* [[Sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]
* [[clause]]
* [[phrase]]

'''Concepts of intra-elemental grammar''' for the English language

* [[noun]]
* [[adjective]]
* [[determiner (linguistics)|determiner]]
* [[verb]]
* [[adverb]]
* [[preposition]]
* [[Grammatical conjunction|conjunction]]
* [[pronoun]]

==Controversy==
The term is mainly used to distinguish these ideas from those of contemporary linguistics, which are intended to apply to a much broader range of languages, and to correct a number of errors in traditional grammar.

Although modern linguistics has exposed the limitations of traditional grammar, it is still the backbone of the grammar instruction given to the general population in Western countries. As such, while very few people have encountered linguistics, nearly everybody in a modern Western culture encounters traditional grammar. This is one of the big difficulties that linguists face when they try to explain their ideas to the general public.

Modern [[linguistics]] owes a very large debt to traditional grammar, but it departs from it quite a lot, in the following ways (among others):
* Linguistics aims to be '''general''', and to provide an appropriate way of analysing '''all''' languages, and comparing them to each other. traditional grammar is usually concerned with one language, and when it has been applied to non-European languages, it has very often proved very inappropriate.
* Linguistics has broader influences than traditional grammar has. For example, modern linguistics owes as much of a debt to [[Panini (scholar)|Panini]]'s grammar of [[Sanskrit]] as it does to Latin and Greek grammar.
* Linguistics is in many ways more descriptively rigorous, because it goes after accurate description as its own end. In traditional grammar, description is often only a means towards formulating [[Linguistic prescription|usage advice]].

While there is a large overlap between traditional grammar and [[Linguistic prescription|prescriptive grammar]], they are not entirely the same thing. Traditional grammar is best thought of as the set of descriptive concepts used by nearly all prescriptive works on grammar. Linguists' critiques of prescriptive grammar often take the form of pointing out that the usage prohibition in question is stated in terms of a concept from traditional grammar that modern [[linguistics]] has rejected.

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