Charles C. Fries is one of the first advocates of structural linguistics.He and other structural linguists such as Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield claimed that great gaps existed between traditional grammacial rules and English as it is actually spoken. They attempted to expose three types of fallacies in traditionalists" thinking: sematic fallacies, logical fallacies and normative fallacies.
The speaker admires and appreciates the librarian. She remembers the librarian's friendliness and how much effort she would make to provide the speaker with the books she wanted. These books were very meaningful and important to the speaker.
