The grammar of a language defines the way in which its sentences are constructed by establishing its structure, syntax, and morphology
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Identifying cases by rephrasing to a question – is this any useful for language learners?
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The German language has cases, but for many words some or all cases are identical.
However, interrogatives are distinct for each case.
Therefore native speakers often identify the case of a word in context by rephrasing the context to a…
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How do natives write without knowing grammar rules?
Grammar is boring, but how can native speakers write academically, without mistakes, without knowing the grammar rules they learnt in high school? Most natives learn grammar when they are in school, and forget all of it.
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What strategies can students use to learn grammar when studying independently?
I would never advise students to focus mostly on grammar, but spending some time focused on grammar can be useful (Paul Nation recommends spending 25% of time focused on language, including grammar and vocabulary, for example). Also, most students…
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English short grammar books recommedation
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I want to study English grammar, but I could not find good resources for me, I want to study shorter books before the longer ones, but I could not find any short ones.
Why it seems in English there are only…
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How to find advanced descriptive grammars written by PhDs in linguistics?
I'll exemplify with Spanish. I'm not seeking books like
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin's A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, now in its 2018 6 ed.
Academia Real's Gramática de la lengua española, 2005 and Esbozo de una nueva gramática de la…
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