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In recent decades grammar teaching has ceased to be one of the main axes that organized the subject Language and Literature (today, Language Practices) in Argentina. According to the Curricular Design of the province of Buenos Aires, grammatical knowledge should remain being systematized in relation to reading, writing and oral practices. In this context, it would be expected that the corresponding textbooks promote this interrelation between grammar and use. In this paper, we aim to analyze how the different combina tions between sentences are presented and explained in these texts from a grammatical perspective, and if they are articulated with the discursive practices. To do this, we carried out a survey of the issue in the last Language Practices textbooks published by Santillana, Kapelusz, Estrada for 3rd year of the secondary education. The investigation showed that there is no clear distinction in these texts between word class, syntactic function and discursive functioning. On the other hand, there was a great terminological variation and lack of specification and consistency in the criteria used to cover both coordination and subordination. Finally, in relation to explanations and activities, there is, essentially, a traditional approach to grammar that does not promote a real connection with the use of language, as proposed in the current curriculum design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]