Because he is tired of listening to his father and he is not interested in grammar rules.
The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture are so
marvelous and remarkable that they should be described at least in a brief account; however, what the student could do was only one single utterance: \
Because the schools fail to set high standards of language proficiency. They only teach a little grammar and less advanced vocabulary. And the younger teachers themselves have little knowledge of the vital structures of language
Because teaching grammar is not an easy job and most of the students will easily get bored if it's not properly dealt with.
He familiarized his son with different parts of speech in a sentence and
discussed their specific grammatical functions including how to use adverbs to describe verbs.
Because the son had never heard about the various names and functions of words in an English sentence before.
The author uses \Here, \
Since the subjunctive mood his son used is a fairly advanced grammar
structure, the interjection \toward his son; it also reflects the author's humor in using the word because it was once used by his student, though in two different situations and with two different feelings.
? Motivation.
? Family support. ? Peer pressure. ? Financial status. ? Future career goals
English grammar helps a lot in the following: ? Order sentences correctly. ? Use words properly.
? Talk with other English speakers confidently. English grammar is of little help:
? Only gives rules that are hard to remember
? Is not helpful in a real-life setting due to the limited time to think and recall the rules.
? Not always applicable to the real language, especially idioms.
Use more communicative ways. ? Encourage a lot of interactions.
? Put sentences in meaningful contexts
? Read more English from online sources.
? Watch English TV/listen to English radio/watch English online videos. ? Talk often with English speakers. ? Listen carefully and extensively.
? Use dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words. ? Use new words as often as possible.
Read English newspapers, magazines, and books. ? Write English as often as possible. ? Write emails in English
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Some bookworms in my dormitory often spend hours reading their \Practical English Grammar, and do a lot of exercises in that book, but I don't care about it at all. My assumption is since I have never learned Chinese grammar, what's the sense of learning English grammar? In fact, English grammar has always been a big headache to me.
English grammar is very complicated because, unlike Chinese, there are many verb tenses. Even stranger than verb tenses, English grammar also contains