In the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English with Taiwanese Translation, grammar is referred to
as “study or science of, rules for, the words into sentences (syntax), and the forms of words (morphology)”. The
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines grammar as “the study of use of the rules by which words
change their forms and are combined into sentences.” In fact, grammar is “multi-dimensional” (Batstone, 1994) and
has multi-meanings. It is generally thought to be a set of rules for choosing words and putting words together to
make sense. Every language has grammar. It has been held that if a language is a building, the words are bricks and
the grammar is the architect’s plan. One may have a million bricks, but do not make a building without a plan.
Similarly, if a person knows a million English words, but he doesn’t know how to put them together, then he cannot
speak English (Brumfit, 2000). In other words, grammar is a framework to describe languages.