A Comparison between TG Grammar and Structural Grammar

Two major schools of grammar emerged in the 20th century, namely American Structural Grammar represented by L. Bloomfield and Transformational-Generative (TG Grammar) Chomsky. This paper compares differences between two from aspects background, stage development, philosophical psychological basis, view language, goals study, objects methods language acquisition theory other aspects. also English teaching. It is helpful for us to better grasp nature these comparing them, so as apply them