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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Nominal Group

Nominal Group A nominal Group is a grammatical constituent composed of a noun and, in some cases, other kinds of words, whose job is to describe, qualify, and give more details about the Head of the Nominal Group. These groups are known as expanded nouns. The structure of nominal groups has three parts, pre-modification, head/thing, and post-modification. The order of these three elements has a relevant role in the meaning of the Nominal Group. Pre-modifiers are in the uppermost rank position in comparison to post-modifiers. The lower rank positions of the post-modifiers are called rank-shifting. Nominal Groups have three functional elements. The first functional element is interpersonal, which refers to the interaction between people throughout clauses. The second functional element is ideational, and it alludes to the meaning of the clause. The last functional element is textual, which refers to the structure or order of the words within a sentence. Head / Thing The Head a...

Types of nouns

Types of nouns Nouns are words used to identify something and give a name to it. That "something" can be people, objects, animals, places, etc. The purpose of the nouns is to help us to identify what are the actors that intervene in text. There are several types of nouns, in order to give a wider view about them, we are going to present 10, these nouns are: Common nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns, concrete nouns, compound nouns, countable nouns, uncountable nouns, collective nouns, singular nouns and plural nouns. References Lock, G. (1996). Functional English Grammar: An Introduction for Second Language Teachers (Cambridge Language Education) (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ELLIS, M. (n.d.). What Is a Mass Noun? Grammarly. Retrieved June 8, 2022. Taken from: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/mass-noun/ Countable and uncountable nouns: Ef: Global site . EF. (n.d.). Retrieved June 8, 2022. Taken from: https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/countable-...

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 ...

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