Can grammar rules be useful?

Yes, they can. For example, if you don't hear (or read) some word or grammar pattern frequently, it may be hard to acquire a natural, intuitive knowledge of it.

Stop asking people to tell you grammar rules

Many learners have a strange habit. When somebody (e.g. a teacher) tells them the correct way to say something in English ("We say big red car.") or corrects their mistake ("You can't say red big car"), they like to ask "why?".
However, the question "why?" has no real answer. When asking the question, learners want to hear a grammar rule (e.g. "We say big red car because adjectives of size come before adjectives of color"). But the rule is not the reason why we don't say "red big car". The rule is only a description of native speakers' habits. It was invented by some linguist who simply noticed that native speakers never say "red big car" or "white small house".
In other words, it is not true that native speakers say "big red car" because they know the rule and follow it. It's the other way around. The size-color rule exists because native speakers say "big red car". Native speakers are the ones who create the language. Grammar rules only follow native speakers' habits.
I believe that it doesn't make much sense to ask the question "why is that sentence correct, and not the other one?". The only good answer to that question would be "Because native speakers say that sentence, and not the other one.". Instead of wondering "why?", simply learn the correct way. You don't have to care that a linguist wrote a rule for it. Follow native speakers, not grammar rules.

Graduation of my kids at EUROIDIOMAS LANGUAGE SCHOOL

left: the coordinator, Aylin, Angie, German, Marianne, Alison, Ivanna and of course Teacher Roger! "Good job !!!!

BOOK FAIR - PERFORMING ANNE FRANK'S DIARY AT CARLOS LISSON HIGH SCHOOL

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COMMENTS ABOUT THE DIARY OF THE YOUNG GIRL

Veronica Alvarado Oscanoa IVº sec

I love this book, actually it's one of my favourites.With this book parents can feel related because Anne Frank was a teenager like us. And thousands of times she may had argues with her parents.She like us fell in love, she had feelings and she wanted to succeed but some pitiful people killed her.This book taught me that families always have to be together. There's no place like home.




Xymena Nino 3rd Grade Secundary :)

Anne wrote about everything that she and her family felt when they were hiding on the basement. She bears it all and she was only a young girl who wanted to be a magnificent writer, get around the world, fall in love... just being a ordinary girl with many dreams.I like this book because it’s a really sad story and it teaches us to value our life and be grateful because we are living in peaceful society without any wars and danger.



Melissa Berrocal IIIº

In my opinion if I were Anne Frank maybe I would be complaining about "Why I had to pass this? Or Why God sent me here?", but Anne Frank only said that God do things for something.Despite of all her problems and her fears she was in love and for me that was something extremely beautiful and her only wish was to be alive with her relatives.I am proud of her because despite of the war she just thought to succeed after war and have a family and maybe others like me just thought to die.



Milagros Sandoval. III sec.

I like this book because it tells a true story of a girl as any of us who pass through the Second World War and went into hiding two years of the Nazis in Amsterdam. Caught my attention because she wanted to be a writer of great and not what might be, but his father published the diaries that she has written telling her life in those 2 years as was her wish. For me the history of Anna Frank is a big success and it is amazing to know that was real.

Piera Franco Lam - IV° Sec.

Well, I think that Anne Frank had a vey hard life and we can identify with her , because she was only a teenager that had to pass in the time of the second world war.And we can see the discrimination to the Jews, for example the different schools, they were not allowed to travel by bus or train or they had to be indoors by 8 o'clock at night.In conclusion it’s a wonderful book for all the ages especially for teenagers, I recommend the book for everyone that want to read an interesting story.

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