Grammar 1

The basics of grammar are essential if you want to be clearly understood in the written or spoken form and also, in order to gain high scores in your essays and in your speeches.

Poorly formed sentences with lots of grammatical errors detract from the message and make comprehension problematic. Learning the grammatical rules of English is highly recommended. Putting them into practice is tricky.

Parts of speech, punctuation, tenses, articles etc may seem to be boring aspects of language, however, if students do not understand how to use these, they will encounter huge hurdles in their speaking and their written work.

Pronouns are particularly problematic for students whose mother tongue does not distinguish between 'he' and 'she'. Chinese students, for example, experience this problem. They constantly refer to a man as 'she'.