Subject English Pedagogy Topic - Parts Of Language
To make the learning easy, A language is divided into four main parts, they are - Phonemes, Morphenes, Syntax and Semantics.
1) Phoneme -The word phone is related with speaking and Phonology is the study of phonemes. so, Phoneme is called the smallest unit of sound .In English language there are 44 Phonemes. phonemes are useful for teachers so that they can use the correct pronunciation.
Eg - The word " Rat " has 3 phonemes 'R'
'a' and 't '.
2 ) Morpheme- Morpheme is the smallest meaning ful unit of sound, Morphology
Is the study of Morphemes. Morpheme can change the meaning of the word. Morphemes can be used as prefix , suffix and base Morphemes .
Eg - Un ( used as prefix Morpheme)
Able ( used as Suffixb Morpheme)
perish ( used as base Morpheme)
3) Syntax - A system of rules for the structure of sentence in a language is called
Syntax. The Common sentence structure for English language is S+ V+ O. S is for subject , V is for verb and O is for object.
Eg - Ravi Reads a book. In this sentence Ravi is subject, reads is verb and a book is object.
4)Semantics - The study of meanings of words or phrases is called Semantics.
Eg - She Drives a bicycle.
This sentence is correct by Syntax but it is incorrect by Semantics because Bicycle can not be drived, so the correct sentence by Sementically is " She rides a bicycle. "
