The New, Easier Way To Understand English Grammar - EnglishAnyone.com

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Most of the English learners I help spent years studying and memorizing grammar tables.
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In fact, many of them still learn with more grammar tables right here on YouTube.
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But they still have trouble using correct grammar automatically in conversations.
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So let me give you a better way to think about grammar, so you can express yourself automatically.
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Imagine a little boy sitting at a kitchen table.
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He sees a beautiful vase of flowers on the table that he really wants to touch.
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So he climbs up on the table and he reaches for the vase, but as soon as he touches it,
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he tips over the vase, the vase rolls off the table and breaks on the floor.
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Well, the boy's mother comes into the room after hearing the crash asking, "What happened?"
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And without thinking, the boy says, "The vase broke."
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Now, most kids would say the same thing in this situation, but the interesting thing
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is why, since there are two equally good ways to explain what happened.
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Number one, I broke the vase.
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Number two, the vase broke.
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Now, a three year old child has no idea about transitive or intransitive verbs.
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In fact, they've never even seen a grammar textbook.
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But what they're really thinking is, how can explain what happened without it being my
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fault?
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How can I explain what happened without it being my fault?
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Does this make sense?
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Children learn nuances of grammar like this very quickly, but not because they study any
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rules.
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Children learn to connect vocabulary with situations by watching others.
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Maybe they're watching family members or some friends or teachers or classmates at school
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and they're seeing how people communicate, what do they say in certain situations.
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So if maybe something breaks or you spill something or you hurt something or someone
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and you want to take responsibility for that, so that's the idea, the situation is I want
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to take responsibility.
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I did that.
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I did that.
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I broke the vase.
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I broke the vase.
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Or if they see someone break something or do something bad or maybe hurt something,
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even if it's not intentional and they don't want it to be their fault or they're trying
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to diminish that, then they say, "Well, the vase broke.
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The vase broke.
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The vase broke."
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And this is how children really understand grammar.
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So the point of this video is really if you want to understand grammar, and more importantly,
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use correct grammar the same way natives do, you have to stop trying to manage rules in
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your head and start connecting vocabulary with situations.
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You see what natives do when something happens, something breaks, or, you know, maybe something
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good happens or whatever.
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Whatever that situation is, you understand the vocabulary by connecting it with the situation,
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and you could even think about the situation at different times.
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So today I will go to the park, but yesterday I went to the park.
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And you'll see that children start developing these patterns.
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They develop what people call a sense of understanding, a sense for correct grammar, so they know
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what to use.
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And as they develop these patterns, they start to maybe clean out the incorrect grammar that
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they use.
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Maybe they learn irregular things like, uh, go and went rather than something like walk
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and walked.
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So as they get these examples and they hear corrections from the people around them, that's
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where they really start developing that sense and start communication fluently.
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But it all begins with that first thing, connecting the vocabulary with the situation, or connecting
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the grammar with the situation.
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If you'd like to learn more about this, if this has been helpful for you and if you can
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start seeing that how maybe powerful this really could be for you and you'd like to
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learn a lot more grammar this way and a lot more vocabulary as well, but not only just
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learn it like you're trying to get a bunch of definitions or translations, I'm talking
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about actually helping you understand it like a native, because when you understand English
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like a native, you speak like a native.
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It's really that simple.
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So if you'd like to do this, you can click on the upper right of this video, and if you
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have any question, you can post them in the comments down below.
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Have a fantastic day and I'll see you in the next video.
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Bye bye.
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