How to improve your grammar?
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This is very true. Well said!book_fiend wrote:Native speakers of English tend to have atrocious grammar because we learned to speak English in primary school without ever learning the grammar rules that accompany the language. It is only those who learned English as a second language that tend to strive to be grammatically accurate. Kind of ironic, isn't it?
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That has not been my experience at all. I was taught grammar in elementary school, starting in first or second grade. Grammar was emphasized as a part of writing throughout my school years.book_fiend wrote:Native speakers of English tend to have atrocious grammar because we learned to speak English in primary school without ever learning the grammar rules that accompany the language. It is only those who learned English as a second language that tend to strive to be grammatically accurate. Kind of ironic, isn't it?
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You were lucky. I can't speak for book_fiend, but those of us educated in the UK in the 1970s/1980s missed out because teaching English grammar was out of fashion. I only learned anything about it through learning languages other than English, or I absorbed information osmotically through reading. I have started to read grammar books lately, with great interest. I note the statement in Chicago Manual of Style that no one can quite agree about the rules of English grammar, though.CatInTheHat wrote:That has not been my experience at all. I was taught grammar in elementary school, starting in first or second grade. Grammar was emphasized as a part of writing throughout my school years.
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There is no easy way to learn English grammar as it is a tricky language. I am also an Asian so I can understand how important and difficult it is to learn English grammar for you. The best way is to read the text in the targeted language from where you know that it contains the standard English grammar, for example you can start with reading daily newspaper because it includes articles and news about wide range of subject in the standard grammar and is hardly with any mistake.