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Originally Posted by erihime  Hello, everybody.
This is not a quesiton concerning any grammer.
It is just a general question popped up in my mind.
How much do native speakers of English understand or use grammer correctly? Hi Erihime,
All native speakers of any language intuitively know the grammar of their language and they know it well. Most native speakers of any language do not understand, in an active sense, the grammar of their language.
When you read any articles in the newspaper, magazines, and etc. how much can we trust the grammer they use? The vast majority of material found in written sources is grammatical.
When I hear people speak, I notice people don't always speak correct English. Do they do so deliberately? Or they don't have enough knowledge of grammer? It has been bothering me so much. Being able to speak English fluently doesn't necessarily mean being able to write correct English.... The vast majority of speech is grammatical and people do speak following the real rules of English grammar. The rules for speech and the rules for writing differ dramatically. Don't be fooled by the extremely limited descriptions of grammar that you've received as an ESL. They covered but a small portion of the rules of language.
If you have a question and if you ask any wrong kind of person, you may end up getting not correct information.... How am I supposed to deal with it? |
You're right there, Erihime. The vast majority of teachers who go into
ESL have very little training and very little active knowledge of how language works.
All you can do is keep asking if you're not satisfied with the first answer you receive.