Re:I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
by michaelt on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:33AM
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> I'd be very surprised if some grammar wasn't taught at all. Formal writing in the UK would be in an absolute state of disarray if this were true.
Oh, everyone in school will have been taught concepts like past tense and pluralisation.
But often you can apply concepts just fine without having memorised the precise technical term for that concept. You can write just fine without understanding sentence diagrams, as surely as you can lift a box without understanding free body force diagrams.
Oh, everyone in school will have been taught concepts like past tense and pluralisation.
But often you can apply concepts just fine without having memorised the precise technical term for that concept. You can write just fine without understanding sentence diagrams, as surely as you can lift a box without understanding free body force diagrams.