• English Grammar For French Students

I am begging you for a chance to explain why you should love French grammar Please read on!! “I don’t want to learn grammar”I recently asked some students what they find most difficult about learning French. The following feedback from Jillian inspired me to write this article:“It is difficult for me to structure sentences and therefore oral communication.

English Grammar For French Students

I don’t want to know about grammar because it just makes me more confused, I would just like to know sentences, then play with the sentences I know to create new sentences.”Many new students do actually start lessons with me by saying: “I want to learn French but I don’t want to learn grammar”.I find this most interesting as it raises many questions; not just about the teaching/learning method, but above all about the reasons why so many students refuse to have anything to do with grammar. What’s Grammar Exactly?For one, it is definitely something that most students are scared of – it may bring back bad school memories, I don’t know. It’s true that the word “Graa-marrr” does sound like the mumbling-roaring of some scary monster!Now, I need you to be brave and bear with me because I’d like to show you some unsuspected benefits you can get from grammarTo tame this monster, let’s start by studying its definition. “ The rules of a language, that show how sentences are formed, or how words are inflected.”(Collins Australian Compact Dictionary, 4 th edition).“ The basic elements of an area of knowledge or skill.” Eg: the grammar of wine/of music.

(Google). “The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.

Ib environmental systems and societies pdf. The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning,a mechanism for generating all sentences possible in that language.”(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition).