Limitations of Traditional Grammar The measures to implement functional grammar in ELC in true letter and spiritTraditional Grammar is the speculative work of the medieval and the prescriptive approach of the 18th Century grammarians basically it refer back to the Aristotelian orientations towards the nature of language as it is shown in the work of the ancient Greeks and Romans. There are ideas about sentence structure deriving form Aristotle and Plato ideas about the parts of speech deriving from the socio-grammarians. A traditional grammar is a framework for the description of the structure of language. Traditional grammars are commonly used in language education.