Functional Grammar

 Functional Grammar

It focuses on the basics of how grammar classifies elements in language from the point of view of what they do rather than their formal characteristics.

For more information you can consult the following page: ELT Concourse: una introducción a la gramática funcional  

Work in class, we did a graphic organizer with the main ideas from Functional Grammar  



Here are some examples of functional grammer.








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