How can I improve in english grrrrammar

[Rocky]

Hi teachers and learners,

I really would like to improve my English grammar, sometimes I write book reviews and short stories but due to my weak skills in grammar it puts me down and makes some of my writing senseless.

How do I become better in my writing expressions? Is it by writing regularly?

I think that I am writing with good sentence structure, but really I am not. How do I improve my sentence structure? Any help, suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,:-o


Mody

 

[emsr2d2]

Hi teachers and learners,

I really would like to improve my English grammar, sometimes I write book reviews and short stories but due to my weak skills in grammar it puts me down and makes some of my writing senseless.

How do I become better in my writing expressions? Is it by writing regularly?

I think that I am writing with good sentence structure, but really I am not. How do I improve my sentence structure? Any help, suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,:-o


Mody

My first suggestion is to read more. You will pick up a lot of useful information by reading anything written by a good native English speaker. Studying grammar is great for the all the basics, but from your post it is clear that you already have a pretty good grasp.

If you have specific questions about a particular sentence, you can post it here and ask for advice or corrections too.

 

[Rocky]

Thank-you very much.That's awesome.

 

[Y.2010]

Thanks, very helpful

 

[ratóncolorao]

My first suggestion is to read more. You will pick up a lot of useful information by reading anything written by a good native English speaker. Studying grammar is great for the all the basics, but from your post it is clear that you already have a pretty good grasp.

If you have specific questions about a particular sentence, you can post it here and ask for advice or corrections too.

Reading your post I have seen that you wrote: native English speaker.
I am afraid that I am constantly using English native speaker .
The use of adjectives order is always a kind of ninghtmare. I have learned that the correct order would bepinion, size, colour, origin, material, purpose. Thus, Old big green Spanish wooden cooking table. (How do you label "native"?)
Some dictionaries solve the question by saying: native speakers of English. Nice!. I have also found Native American - Cambridge Dictionary - where American is taken as a noun, I believe.

Would you please clarify this for me?

Thank you very much

 

[emsr2d2]

Reading your post I have seen that you wrote: native English speaker.
I am afraid that I am constantly using English native speaker .
The use of adjectives order is always a kind of ninghtmare. I have learned that the correct order would bepinion, size, colour, origin, material, purpose. Thus, Old big green Spanish wooden cooking table. (How do you label "native"?)
Some dictionaries solve the question by saying: native speakers of English. Nice!. I have also found Native American - Cambridge Dictionary - where American is taken as a noun, I believe.

Would you please clarify this for me?

Thank you very much

I can't say I'd ever considered the order of those words in that sentence. I describe myself as a "native English speaker" so often that it has never occurred to me.

In that sentence, English is not an adjective. It's a noun - the English language, therefore the adjective comes before it.

To me, if I said "I'm an English native speaker", the word English would sound like a nationality, not a language. Therefore I would be describing myself as someone from England, who is a native speaker. However, you cannot be a native speaker without specifying the language.

The most important part of it is "English speaker" which acts like a single noun, so I would consider any other adjective in that sentence to be descriptive of that noun and therefore to come before it.

 

[ratóncolorao]

I can't say I'd ever considered the order of those words in that sentence. I describe myself as a "native English speaker" so often that it has never occurred to me.

In that sentence, English is not an adjective. It's a noun - the English language, therefore the adjective comes before it.

To me, if I said "I'm an English native speaker", the word English would sound like a nationality, not a language. Therefore I would be describing myself as someone from England, who is a native speaker. However, you cannot be a native speaker without specifying the language.

The most important part of it is "English speaker" which acts like a single noun, so I would consider any other adjective in that sentence to be descriptive of that noun and therefore to come before it.

Yes, much easier now. I had not thought of English as an noun. As it goes with language I took for granted that it was an adjective that, of course, was refering to the country and modifying the noun speaker.
Besides, other example comes to my mind : beautiful English language which would be similar to native English language, wouldn't it?

Thank you very much :-D