It may be that not infrequently, you, dear user, have already felt asked about why you study so many rules, so many concepts, which are manifested on different occasions, in textbooks, in terms of Basic Education, as well as in others, in which we feel keen to further expand our knowledge and, therefore, we go in search of a good grammar, anyway...
There, right there in the sources where they are found, they appear in a fragmented way, given the divisions inherent to the grammatical postulates, although not always perceptible, but each linguistic fact fits into one of these divisions. No wonder that we started there in Phonology, we went through Morphology, we took a "journey" through syntax and reached our final destination, facing the Stylistic, which is exactly when we study about the denotative and connotative aspect of language, whose approaches make reference to figures of speech.
At first, it may be that for many, so much information, so many nomenclatures end up causing a feeling of frustration, which often leads to their own repulsion for the Portuguese language. This is so true that many times when we ask most students about the subject in question, their resulting conceptions are not encouraging, so to speak.
However, despite such setbacks, one fact becomes unquestionable - we talk and, above all, writing correctly is a posture attributed to all of us, speakers of this rich, precious and beautiful language. Thus, when we apprehend this wave of concepts, even if fragmented, as expressed before, we are becoming skillful, capable of putting them into practice, both with regard to orality and with regard to the written modality, and in the latter the requirements are even more significant. Thus, in order to illustrate this issue, contextualizing it in practical terms, let us analyze the linguistic utterance that follows:
Reading is essential for improving our linguistic competence.
Do not stop now... There's more after the advertising ;)
Through an analysis, a more accurate reading of this statement, we can compare it to a puzzle, whose parts they fit together, one by one, in order to occupy their respective place and contribute so that the "whole" is materialized in a way plausible. In this way, dismantling each of these parts and analyzing them from a linguistic point of view, we have:
The reading (article+noun) = subject of the prayer.
it is indispensable (verb+adjective) = nominal predicate, followed by the subject's predicative (indispensable).
To the improvement of our linguistic competence
(preposition+noun+preposition+possessive pronoun+noun+adjective)
= nominal complement.
This example made us realize that the aspects related to those divisions we talked about earlier were materialized, specifically in terms of of Morphology and Syntax and, of course, aspects related to Phonology, which are present through the orthographic aspects.
By Vania Duarte
Graduated in Letters
