In actual, as opposed to invented discourse, there is more speech indicating the identity (The boy is a student), class (The rock is granite), quality (It is hard), or state (He is busy) of people or things described by a noun or adjective than that indicating the action (He reads books), or movement (It rolls) represented by a verb. Yet, traditional prescriptive English grammar description (T-PEGD) explains English grammar based on verbs both semantically and syntactically. This causes its description to be inadequate and impractical resulting in T-PEGD not encompassing all types of English but certain categories of English such as formal or prescriptive ones, and therefore, coming to recognize in colloquial English there are utterances and sentences deviating from T-PEGD. This raises the question in English acquisition, especially for L2 learners, how to cope with the incompliances. In order to solve this problem, this paper introduces a new definition of English predicate and predicate phrase as well as a scientific expression of predicate phrase including a set of examples, which finally come to be a new model of describing English grammar called POES. This approach examines the utterances and sentences based on the predicate as the topic carrier, which is not limited to a verb but can also exist as a noun or adjective. It also does not differentiate between spoken and written English, in effect, combining them to provide a more sustainable, consistent, and realistic description of English grammar that will comply with everyday English.

Authors:
Byeongyong Kim, Sociom Research Center, South Korea

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Kim serves as director of Sociom Research Center in South Korea, devoting his time to researching into Social Axiom (Sociom) and solving flaws of English grammar description in T-PEGD (traditional prescriptive English grammar description).

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