Different types of grammar

A system of languageanalysis that recognizes the relationship among the various elements of a sentence and among the possible sentences of a language and uses processes or rules (some of which are called transformations) to express these relationships.

• Universal Grammar
• Descriptive Grammar
• Transformational Grammar
• Prescriptive Grammar

It compares the grammatical forms and usages of an  allied group of tongues and thereby reduce them to their earliest forms and sentences.

• Generative Grammar
• Comparative Grammar
• Traditional Grammar
• Lexical Grammar

A set of rules about language based on how it is actually used.

• Descriptive Grammar
• Prescriptive Grammar
• Universal Grammar
• Transformational Grammar

 A set of rules about language based on how people think language should be used

• Descriptive Grammar
• Pedagogical Grammar
• Prescriptive Grammar
• Construction Grammar

It is a linguistic theory, proposed by Noam Chomsky, that argues that the ability to learn language is innate, distinctly human and distinct from all other aspects of human cognition.

• Universal Grammar
• Lexical Grammar
• Transformational Grammar
• Generative Grammar

it is a modern approach in linguistics intended to aid in teaching an additional language.

• Descriptive Grammar
• Pedagogical Grammar
• Prescriptive Grammar
• Traditional Grammar

A theory of language that seeks to characterize knowledge of grammar in terms of symbolic conceptual and semantic categories and general cognitive processes.

• Universal Grammar
• Transformational Grammar
• Cognitive Grammar
• Pedagogical Grammar