The Richness of Grammar

From one sentence to any sentence

Whatever you read or write, or talk about, you will meet sentences. Schools pay attention to sentence construction as a basic skill for writing and reading. Sentences can be as short as two words, or as long as sixty or eighty words or more (even in literature for children). They can have a simple or…

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‘No more grammar lessons, please!’

When a ten-year-old told me in strong terms how much he disliked grammar, it made me question what I was teaching. He disliked it because it was too difficult, and he did not see the use of it. That was a problem that I felt linguistics could solve – not simply by changing the lesson…

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