Way Of Learning English Grammar Essay

1. A voyage through the communicative language

Almost all children around the world acquire a language, apparently without effort. We take information from whatever is going on around us. As a child, we pick up and forget a language easily, they are able to put on and take off languages like items of clothing. We acquire our native-language subconsciously, without thinking about grammar or vocabulary. It is called our native-speaker’s grammar or mother tongue. Nowadays, this same ‘grammar’ is considered as a means, not as an end in itself.

Improving a language is a painstakingly difficult process of practice and exposure. The best way of learning English is to be exposed to that language on a regular basis. In Belgium a majority of the students learn English because they think it will be useful for travel and international communication.

We cannot deny that the Grammar is an important part of the language. It gives us a concrete explanation of how a language works. In other words, we cannot communicate properly without it. Most of our workbooks and manuals present the correct usage of grammar through rules and

Epistemic (Greek episteme means knowledge) and root modalities are sub-types of linguistic modality. The majority of modal verbs can be either extrinsic or intrinsic, depending on the context and the function they complete. We talk about extrinsic modality (in other words epistemic modality) when the speaker gives his/her opinion about a statement. It evaluates the degree of possibility/certainty that something might be true or not. Douglas Biber et al. (1999) introduces the term epistemic modality in his grammar book ‘Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English’ as “referring to the logical status of events or states, usually relating to assessments of likelihood: possibility, necessity, or prediction” (p. 485). We can imagine a scale of what is likely to be true or