The Building Blocks of Language: Dive into English Grammar Lessons

Grammar is the building block of language. It helps you understand the nuances of the language and how to construct the right sentences and improve communication. Imagine you are speaking to a native English speaker. You have a particular idea in mind that you want to convey. You know how to speak English. But when you speak, the sentences are so deformed that your idea, no matter how exceptional, doesn’t reach the listener’s mind. The listener is left wondering what your sentences mean rather than focusing on your idea. What will you do then?

This is where grammar lessons step in. You cannot learn English without learning the grammar rules. So it is necessary to learn grammar before you go out in the world of English-speaking people. Let’s dive into grammar lessons:

1. Common rules and definitions
   Start your grammar lessons by learning about common terms. Understand what nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, tenses, subjects, predicates, and clauses are. You can also learn about forms of speech like active and passive voice.


2. Start learning the rules of implication
   English grammar has many rules of implication. What tense to use, which form of speech to use, and which pronoun to use might bewilder you. So start learning the rules of the grammar’s implication. Simultaneously, form sentences conforming to the rules.


3. Listen to podcasts, movies, and shows - learning grammar in context
   Listen to English videos and focus on how the sentences are being formed. You can mimic the sentences or make notes of the rules you learn. It is not enough to memorize grammar rules. You need to apply them in context so that the bookish knowledge can turn into practicality. For this, you can read books, news articles, or research papers written in a particular context. Pay attention to how the sentences have been formed and how the grammar has been used.


4. Self-assessment
   You can assess your grammar skills by finding pain points, learning about them, and practicing them. However, there are other ways too to assess your progress. You can join quizzes based on English grammar online or at any English learning platform. Whatever you write or record, get them checked by a teacher, language expert, or a native speaker. Their feedback would be the most useful in correcting your mistakes.


5. Start speaking
   Once you are confident about your grammar expertise, start speaking. Engage in conversations to learn grammar in context. Speak to native speakers on language exchange websites, join workshops and groups where people interact with each other in English, or speak to yourself but loudly and record your voice regularly. This will help you find the pain points and give direction to your learning process.

We hope these tips will help you learn grammar and hence enhance your language skills. However, remember, you are learning grammar not just to memorize the rules. You have to apply those rules in your conversation.