Sheeran, Frank, and Grammar

'Sheeran, Frank, and Grammar', or according to its abbreviation SFG, was created to bring people closer to the concept of the Nominal Group in grammar through pop genre songs of Ed Sheeran and Frank Sinatra.

In this blog, you will find the biography of the artists, a brief history of the pop genre and its characteristics, the definition of the concepts of grammar that will be studied in this project, the analysis of the lyrics of some songs, the comparison of the nominal groups of the songs of each artist and a reflection.

We hope that this blog will greatly contribute to expanding the knowledge of Systemic Functional Grammar and that the songs provide a way of acquiring knowledge easily with a dynamic learning process.

Who we are

We are students of English Philology at Universidad Nacional of Colombia.

We are excited to share our knowledge in Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) and bring you closer to the study of grammar in a dynamic way through songs by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Ed Sheeran.

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Postmodifiers

Postmodifiers Postmodification or qualification consists of the modification that occurs after the headword. These are the words that come after the main noun. They consist of finite clauses, non-finite clauses, and prepositional phrases. Postmodifiers give extra or specific information about the noun and they are not necessary to complete the meaning. Types of postmodifiers Finite clauses These are clauses that are introduced by relative pronouns such as who, whom, whose, which, and that. Some examples are: Non-finite clauses The non-finite post modifying clause can be considered a reduced form of the finite relative clause. It does not have the relative pronoun and the finite. There are three main types of non-finite postmodifying clauses: ing -clauses (verb in gerund), ed -clauses (verb in participle), and to -clauses (verb in infinitive). Some examples are: Prepositional phrases There is a prepositional phrase (which begins ...

Analysis of 'Thinking Out Loud' by Ed Sheeran

Thinking Out Loud Structural Nominal Group Analysis Findings Meaning of the song The song is trying to communicate how true love can cross all kinds of difficulties. No matter how time changes our appearance, beliefs, or fame, even if we become weak, the important thing is to feel the same love as when we were young. Ed Sheeran uses this romantic story, between 2 people, to show us how love can last forever and can be found in ways people can't understand. Analysis of the Nominal Group structure The lyrics of the song 'Thinking Out Loud' have a total of 86 nominal groups. Among these, we can find 52 simple nominal groups, 22 NGs with only premodification, 2 NGs with only postmodification, and 10 NGs with both pre and postmodification. In terms of premodification, we find that there are 22 nominal groups. These are divided into those with the possessive adjectives 'my' and 'your' (12), the definite article 'the' (4), the describer 'mysterious...

Premodifiers

Premodifiers When people use their languages, they tend to form grammatical structures such as nominal groups. In the previous post, about Nominal Group , you learned that nominal groups are composed of a word called head, and that they can have other kinds of words added. Those words are called modifiers. Modifiers are the words that modify something. In nominal groups, modifiers modify the head, how it is understood. The premodification is the first component in the nominal group structure, in which you can find words that enrich the significance of the head after it is mentioned. The words are known as Deictic, Numerative, Epithet and Classifier. The examples were taken from the book Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Chapters 2, 4 and 16). Below, you will find other examples of how the head can be modified in pre-modification: Deictic Numerative Epithet Classifier Thing No gentleman were admitted, so Jo played male parts t...

Sheeran, Frank & Grammar (SFG)

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