10 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH GRAMMAR

 

Mar8by marthamontejano

10 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT ENGLISH GRAMMAR

1.- Grammar it is really important to learn English,  because with grammar we change, combine and organize parts of words or groups or words to make meaning and understand sentences or ideas. And it is because of grammar that we can share ideas, feelings and also our knowledge. Grammar has many forms and uses that can be used for us.

2.- We must know that there are nine parts of speech in English:
v  Noun, that is a word used to name a person, animal, place, thing, an abstract idea. Nouns are usually the first words which small children learn.
v  Verb, is perhaps the most important part of the sentence. A verb or compound verbasserts something about the subject of the sentence and express actions, events, or states of being.
v  Adjectives, modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.
v  Adverbs, can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a phrase, or a clause. An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as “how,” “when,” “where,” “how much”.
v  Determiners, make clear which noun is refered to.
v  Prepositions, links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. A preposition usually indicates the temporal, spatial or logical relationship of its object to the rest of the sentence.
v  Pronouns, can replace a noun or another pronoun. Pronouns are used to make yoursentences less repetitive.
v  Conjunctions, are used to link words, phrases, and clauses.
v  Exclamation, are used to show a strong feeling, doubt or pain.

3.- Words behaves sentences and sentences has rules, and parts of speech coud varied depending of the function that they have in a sentences. For example:

J	L
Noun can act as subject of a verb	An adjective by itself can not
We can combine an adverb and an adjective	We cannot use an adjective and an adjective
We can use a noun and a noun

4.- We can see different grammatical forms in grammatical structure, and also we must know that there are many grammatical terms to describe different grammatical structures. For example: tenses, passive voice, comparatives, prepositional phrase, contrast clauses, prefixes or suffixes.

5.- Grammatical uses refer to how grammatical structures are used to communicate so many time the meaning or use of the words or speech depends of the context in which it is used. Example: Tenses

6.- Grammar rules describe the way that language works, but language changes all the time, so grammar rules change too… This is something really important for English teachers and English learners.

7.- There are some differences between spoken and written language, and some books does not describe those differences that describe spoken language.

8.- Teachers needs to analyze the best way to teach  grammar, because it is a difficult topic to teach, and it is most difficult if they are teaching children or old people… so there are many ways to teach according with the age and the necessities of learners and a teacher needs to know it.

9.- English teachers needs to improve the skills, fluency and communications of learners, not only the grammar part.

10.- It is truth that children do not learn grammar when they learn their first language, but adults who learn a second language really need to, and it is because we as second language learners, we translate words and sentences all the time and we try to compare the new things we are learning with the way that we use it in our language.