Do you like grammar?
By furqonefendi
@furqonefendi (39)
Indonesia
10 responses
@allknowing (137872)
• India
8 Feb 13
I like grammar as communication is built around it. Even during my school days I enjoyed it and was quite good at it too.
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@furqonefendi (39)
• Indonesia
8 Feb 13
that's sounds good... but I feel difficult to learn grammar.. can you give me some tips how to learn it?
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@allknowing (137872)
• India
8 Feb 13
An easy way is to actually speak with those who are good at it. You could also follow news on BBC or any such channels. You could buy a book on grammar. I think we used follow a book on grammar by Wren and Martin. You should also read easy literature.
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@furqonefendi (39)
• Indonesia
8 Feb 13
oh.... thanks for your suggestion. I'll try to make a decision to learn grammar now
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
8 Feb 13
If your grammar had been taught in primary and secondary schools it would be instilled in your blood. On the other hand when you start learning the language as an adult, you will find it more difficult and to grapple with the rules in Grammar would be an arduous task. When it is done without your knowledge you learn rules without even being aware of it and if you are a person with a good reading habit and a good memory, things will not be difficult. You would automatically get a flair for the language.
Communication can be taught without torturing a person with the rules of grammar but unconscious adherence to rules occur only when you have learnt it young or when you have had very good teachers.
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@furqonefendi (39)
• Indonesia
8 Feb 13
I like your comment because I'm a teacher
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
8 Feb 13
No, I don't like it.
It's confusing trying to learn the grammar of another country, but it is important.
What's the use of learning another language if the people you have to use it on can only understand your words, but not what you're trying to express? It may cause confusion or misunderstandings.
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@timetravel (1425)
• United States
11 Feb 13
I don't know that grammar is something you can "like" or "dislike" - one can like using proper grammar, or dislike doing so. Grammar is a given - what we do with it, and how we choose to use it is based on individual knowledge and preference. Or even culture. Often use of improper grammar is culturally driven, even if those who use it improperly know the correct usage.
When I read something by someone whose native language is not English, I am fine with the way the grammar appears. I just appreciate that someone is learning, and as with all learning a foreign language, it takes time getting used to the intricacies of the language and grammar.
@timetravel (1425)
• United States
11 Feb 13
I forgot to add - an excellent guide is Strunk And White's "Elements of Style". It's a small book, you can find it on Amazon. Not very expensive, either.
@else22 (4317)
• India
9 Feb 13
To be honest,no.Grammar is a subject that is boring.But then learning grammar is essential,because without learning it you can't express yourself in a laguage that you are learning.I am telling you,I actually started stugying English grammar after graduation.My mother tongue is Hindi and I am good at it.English is a foreign language for me,so I had to study it properly.After graduation,I began learning it through books in which the rules of English grammar are explained in an easy and playful way.I started reading English books and newspapers as well.Now I feel the strategy has worked.My English is now far better than what it was earlier.Yet I have to learn more to stop committing grammatical mistakes that,I know,I commit.
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@rainforest89 (12)
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8 Feb 13
I would say that grammar is perhaps one of the necessary evils of the English language. It's not easy to be familiar and to ultimately get used to all the various verb forms/tenses etc, but it is necessary because it does help to smoothen communication by giving more clarity (clearness) to sentences.
I guess you could argue that we could do without grammar and still understand the majority of what is being said; but if we could write clearer sentences, why not?
The best way to learn grammar I think is to just read as many English books as possible. Read those that you like! I grew up reading Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and loved every minute of reading them. Learning grammar can be fun if you do that!
I personally wouldn't like a formal course on grammar (it seems way too boring!) and I'll much rather pick it up from books.
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@jeanneyvonne (5501)
• Philippines
12 Feb 13
Have to agree on all points. You don't have to like it but you have to follow it nonetheless if you want to be understood by those who use it. Depends on where you are suing it, poor grammar can be excusable or not.
@camomile07 (1420)
• Germany
10 Feb 13
When we study a new language, maybe English or any other one, we have to study both: vocabulary (to know the apropiate words to communicate) and the grammar (which helps us to know how to use those words). Both parts are going hand in hand. That means: if we learn only the grammar, it would have no sense, so we have to study the vocabulary first, after we have the knowledge where to use the grammar we learn. Beside, studying only the vocabulary without the grammar has got no sense, too. Why? A good communication for a good understanding is based on a right expression. If we want to be well understand, we have to be able to express well and correctly our ideas. That point we may only reach by a correct combination of both parts of a language. Sometimes, it might be difficult to understand a part of the grammar, but yes, I like it.
@jkct02 (2874)
• Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
12 Feb 13
English should be learned the proper way right from the start. Communication in English may seem to be possible with no regard of the grammatical rules but it may be just broken English that is being spoken. If you really want to learn English, you have to know the grammar in order to learn it well.