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they only teach a little grammar and even less advanced vocabulary. Morec
younger teachers themse/ve evidently have litle knowledge of these viul sn e
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language because they also went without exposure to them. Schools fail to adequat
teach the essential framework of language, accurate grammar and proper vocabulary
while they should take the responsibility of pus hing the young onto the patel
competent communicat
Since grammar is boring to most of the young students, I think that it must be handl
delicately, step by step. The chance came when one day I was driving with my w
As we set out on our trip, he noticed a bird in jerky flight and said, "0
unsteady. I carefully asked. "My son, how is the bird flying?""what's wrong? Didlsn
nything incorectly?"He got lost. "Great! You said incorrectly instead of incorect
use adverbs to describe verbs. Therefore, it's flying so unsteadily but not so umstead
Curious about my correction, he asked me what an adverb was. Slowly, I said, Ii
word that tells you something about a verb. "It led to his asking me what a verb was
explained, "Verbs are action words, for example, Dad drives the truck. Drive is the vet
because it's the thing Dad is doing
10 He became attracted to the idea of action words, so we listed a few more: /ly, swim,
run, Then, out of his own curiosity, he asked me if other words had names for their use
and functions. This led to a discussion of nouns, adjectives, and articles. Within the
span of a 10-minute drive, he had learned from scratch to the major parts of speech it
a sentence. It was painless learning and great fun
i Perhaps, language should be looked upon as a road map and a valuable posses
often study the road map (check grammar) and tune up the car engine (adur
vocabulary). Learning grammar and a good vocabulary is just like driving with a ru
map in a well-conditioned car
The road map provides the framework and guidance you need for your trip, but i
won't tell you exactly what trees or nowers you will see, what kind of people you mi
