What is the Place of Grammar in Language Teaching?

Leave out=leave +out

Not transparent. A highly complex word. I would choose to teach this word to varying level of learners. “Leave out” has two free morphemes and can be defined as” to omit and exclude someone or something”. This verb phrase is easy to comprehend and may be described to the learners with examples such as; ‘She left out an important detail about Physics in her research.’

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  Good-looking=good + look+ ing
  

I would choose to teach this word to early language learners. “Good- looking” has two free morphemes (“good” and “look”) and one bound morpheme (-ing). Fairly transparent. Elementary level student will understand this word. It either means beautiful (for female gender), handsome (male gender) or something presentable. “Good- looking” is an adjective that means:” to have a pleasing or attractive appearance”. The meaning of the word can be easily inferred when separated into its morphemes.” Good means of high quality and looking to seem to be something especially because of appearance, the meaning of the word is clear as a whole.” “Mick Coury was a normal teenager with a Firebird and a good-looking girlfriend until schizophrenia incapacitated him at 17.”

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  First-class=first +class
  

I would choose to teach to varying learners because this word is a semitransparent word.
” First -class” has two free morphemes and can be defined as of the best quality and of the highest excellence. It can be an adverb and an adjective. Not transparent. This is a complex word. Students at upper intermediate level can understand this word has multiple meanings. Usually means of a luxurious class and the price will commensurate with the comfort level offered. Also refers to an outstanding performance in sports, theatre or even achieving excellent results in an examination. Learners who travel for vacation with a plane or train may be familiar with the term however it might be confusing for other students. The meaning of the word is not necessarily inferable from its morphemes, the learners might confuse it with ‘first grade’ of school because of the words first (confusion with ‘one’) and class (confusion with ‘classroom’).

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