Today we have prepared three tips to improve English Grammar, hope to help you!
1. Grammar Exercises
First, many students have a misconception about English Grammar, that it is “unlearnable”. It is true that English is a language and cannot be used as a science subject like math or physics without stopping to practice test questions to get better grades.
There are certain rules for English Grammar, and of course they should not be applied in a “rigid” way, but it is important to understand that these basic rules can help students avoid common mistakes. For example, the difference between Excited and Exciting is whether you are describing an event or a person, or the feeling that an event/person brings to you. Although most students do not know what the difference is, it is actually mentioned in all commercially available Grammar books.
I am not trying to say that reading more Grammar books will lead to a rapid improvement in English, but the process of studying Grammar books is a must. You must understand some basic grammatical rules of English, so that you can use this language flexibly on the basis of these rules.
2. Do proofreading exercises
Second, English cannot be practiced day and night, but this does not mean that there are no opportunities to practice English. Many people feel that there is a lot of repetition in the exercises in the Grammar book, and doing them is like punishing them for copying, so it is easy to lose patience and get bored with this subject.
If you want to make progress in English, one of the easy ways is to do Proofreading exercises. There are plenty of Proofreading resources available on the market and even on the Internet. Generally speaking, Proofreading is about finding mistakes in a sentence, maybe a wrong word or an omitted word, and many of them are aimed at Grammar.
A good exercise will even tell you the reason why the position is wrong, with a detailed explanation. This will solve the problem that many people say they don’t know English, but they don’t know what they don’t know. After reading the answers and finding the corresponding topics, and reading the Grammar book again, you can actually have a very good review effect.
In addition, proofreading exercises are more varied and interactive, so it is not so easy to get bored and you can build up the habit of revision for a long time.
3. English movies/plays
Third, many people encounter a big problem on the road to learning English, which is that the things taught in textbooks seem to be very different from the Grammar that foreigners use in their daily lives. The book teaches the basics, but in the world of foreigners, these may never be used.
We can’t ignore the fact that English is a language. The language is constantly evolving, with different people’s habits and historical origins, and many new words and phrases are created every year.
To keep up with the times and update your knowledge of English, watching movies or plays in English as the primary language is a great help. For example, if you spend some money to join Netflix, which provides English subtitles, you can understand how foreigners actually use certain words, and you can apply the knowledge you learn in Grammar books. There are also many YouTube channels dedicated to teaching English, so watching a few minutes a day can be helpful.
