Grammar and its components
Last November I posted this regarding grammar: Accuracy of focus cannot be achieved without attention to grammatical detail, including appropriate inflection (the changes of form that words undergo to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice) and syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences). This post and subsequent posts will cover these components in greater detail.
Ken Macrorie: "The good writer masters grammar in order to control his words, and meaning is his target." (Flachmann and Flachmann, The Prose Reader, 2nd edition, 342)
accidence: a part of grammar that deals with inflections
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