Language awareness
I knew it was coming. Grammar.
When I think grammar, I think about GCSE French (again!). Not really knowing what was meant by a past participle or a possessive pronoun, just made a difficult subject even harder.
When I say that we never did English grammar at school, I’m sure I have teachers and friends who would refute that statement.
OK, yes there was that one time we defined a few terms (noun, verb, adjective) and the rest was just either good or bad English so was correctly accordingly.
When you used good English it just sounded right, though you couldn’t actually give any rules or explanations. Well I certainly couldn’t.
Half way though this unit Christmas conveniently popped up so I left the section ‘Structure of the English Sentences’ and have had the pleasure revisiting it today.
Much to my surprise the notes I had taken were pretty good and I’m finally getting to grips with the word classes of my mother tongue. About bloomin’ time. Also it’s going to make future language learning easier which is a bit of luck as I have my Dutch lesson tonight.
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