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Destini Armstrong
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I get it -I was there and I know all those questions in your head. But in this post, I would like to invite you to look at grammar as your buddy. Why? To make that friendship beneficial for your learning.
I looked at grammar differently. Maybe you are like I used to be, and you consider Polish grammar as your enemy? An enemy who is boring and serious, who is only looking for a moment to catch you out with another crazy exception?
Do you learn Polish words with Duolingo or another application? Building up your vocab is important to have the right words when we need them in our conversations. Your vocabulary bank could be amazingly rich, however, if you don't know how to attach the words together, you would probably speak a broken language (in Polish we say mwić jak Kali jeść, Kali pić, meaning you speak basically without any grammar*).
Of course, you can grasp the language without even knowing what a gender, case or preposition stand for. You just learn by listening to natives and repeating in the same context. That is a great way to learn, but unfortunately we are not always in that comfortable situation.
The foundations of a new house never look good. They are not the prettiest part, but essential to start building up your dream house with that terrace and the sea view.The grammar is similar, neither the most fun element of learning, nor the most beautiful, but fundamental.
As much as I believe in grammar and its necessity in improving language skills, I believe mainly in communication. In my early days as a Polish tutor, I remember one student that I probably scared too much with my thorough and dry explanation about the Accusative case. He never got back to me. Lesson learnt. I have decided to never teach outside the context. Teaching and learning grammar? Only in a communicative and practical approach.
This book is a bit more advanced and more traditional than the other. I would recommend it for middle schoolers (and maybe on into 9th grade). There are no illustrations, but the text is laid out nicely with plenty of headings, subheadings, shaded areas, and offset boxes.
I have a first grader and preschooler. We are just dipping our toes into grammar with First Language Lessons. However, I am a grammar junky. I love quirky modern grammar books as well as vintage antique grammar books. If I win these, they would totally be for me and not the kids (at least for several years).
Not using anything currently, but will be needing something in the near future. These look like wonderful books to add to our library (which is lacking in the grammar/English section). Thank you for the possibilities.
I don't know the credentials of OP's source (Trudy Aronson), but so far as I'm concerned, any sentence of the general form [subject] didn't [infinitive verb] yet is inherently invalid (or at least, "awkward" compared to Past Perfect). Here's what Cambridge Dictionary has to say about it...
In terms of the use of yet with the simple past, there seems to be some division between what's acceptable to American vs. British ears. In US English, I find the following sentence completely natural and grammatical (Note: I speak of "grammar" in the more general term. That is, part of natural language use):
Digest and digest are two words that are spelled identically but are pronounced differently and have different meanings, which makes them heteronyms. We will examine the definitions of the words digest and digest, where these words came from, and a few examples of their use in sentences.
Digest (die JEST) is a verb that means to break down food in the body in order to extract nutrition. Digest is also used figuratively to mean to consume and mentally process knowledge. A third meaning of digest is to systematize and organize something. The word digest is derived from digesten. Related words are digests, digested, digesting, digestion.
According to the research firm, it took 20 days between a peak in COVID-19 cases in late April and a rally in value stocks to occur, as investors needed time to digest the news and see if the worst was really over before they committed their money to beaten-down stocks that rely on an opened-up economy. (The Business Insider)
This is a great opportunity to learn how to teach grammar more effectively in language classes. Assoc Prof Kati Tonkin from the University of WA shares her research on active learning and the flipped classroom, and explains how the model works in practice with different technologies.
Professor David Hargreaves, a former chief executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, said: "There should be more traditional grammar and spelling and we should penalise work when it is wrong.
That debate has been sparked off again by a Channel Four documentary, That'll Teach 'Em, in whichstudents studying for GCSEs were transported to a traditional 1950s-style classroom to be coached in O-levels.
Professor Hargreaves called for a national debate on the teaching of English in secondary schools and told The Independent that he had put forward a proposal that the current GCSE English exam should be renamed English language - and concentrate on grammar teaching.
It was vetoed by the Secretary of State for Education, David Blunkett, because it would have meant the compulsory Shakespeare test for GCSE students being transferred to the English literature paper - taken by fewer youngsters. Professor Hargreaves said of his suggestion: "Unfortunately, ministers didn't like it because it was portrayed as axeing Shakespeare."
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