Is Studying English Grammar Really Necessary
Is Studying English Grammar Really Necessary
This video is a short explanation of about why in writing and homeschool writing---it is all but useless to study grammar. The Writing Course is available to develop these principles in young writers.
Is grammar really necessary? You know this might be the kind of video
you’d want to send to your teacher. Rudolph Gresham, one of the most
famous grammarians in American history, answered that question in a pretty interesting way.
He said “a large part of your life spent in learning English grammar and usage. What did you get out of it?
How often do you use your precious knowledge of the moods, tenses, participles, and gerunds,demonstrous pronouns, and subordinations, conjunctions?” The obvious answer is NEVER!
You speak, and read, and write all day long, but throughout your adult life,
you haven’t spent a single second, deciding whether to put a verb in front
of noun and indicative or subjective or in exercising a choice between a definite and indefinite article.
Grammar is something you learn, promptly forget and dismiss for the rest of your life.
Let me tell you there is a little book, called the “Teacher’s Grammar Book”.
They showed the studies since 1930’s demonstrate every single time that students who studied grammar more write worse.
In other words, if you just spent time writing, listening to what you’re saying, saying if your
friends thinking sounds pretty good, you will find out your grammar will improve.
Not by knowing a bunch of rules, but by using a little common sense and LISTENING…. to how it sound….!