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In this chapter, we’ve done very little syntax but talked a lot about the assumptions underlying the approach we’re going to take to the study of sentence structure. The basic approach to syntax that we’ll be using here is generative grammar; we’ve seen that this approach is scientific in that it uses the scientific method. It is descriptive and rule-based. Further, it assumes that a certain amount of grammar is built in and the rest is acquired.