Do you still try to learn English language by remembering the rules of Tenses, has not the modern-understanding and teaching made you learn English in simpler, easier and more natural way?
I have seen that many teachers still insist on their students to memorize the formulas of tenses to learn English, while the truth is that those rules which seem to be like math formulae are never easy to memorize. Each time you make a sentence, you have to recall those formulae or Tense or grammar rule to make the sentence which makes it more like maths rather than a language. This way of learning English is not going to help you much as you will not be able to use it as a language in real world.
I would never like to ruin my life by wasting time in memorizing rules and then recalling them to make sentences.
Are you learning English in this way? Then I recommend you to stop for a while and check if you are able to use English as a practical language in reality.
Okay, If I do not memorize tenses and rules then how should we learn English?
I think the answer is your mind! Train it in the right way, it has the power and programming to catch and know the pattern of language, just like you learnt your native language.
When you write or speak, you make sentences which are like bricks and then by arranging bricks we create walls. Similarly we say out a story, or write a paragraph by saying sentence units. So learn sentence making when you learn any new language.
Read and Listen to English as much as possible.Your mind will start knowing the pattern of sentences in English language.
Also practice creating sentences as much as you can by writing sentences on a topic. You can also go through other sentence related exercises like filling the gaps, jumbled sentences and words, error correction, translation, flashcards, question-answers and more.
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The simple rule to learn language is Practice! and Practice!
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Why Learning Sentence Structure Rules (also called tense rules in punjab) doesn’t Work
There are two problems with sentence structure rules (Mainly rules for tenses).
First, language is infinite. No matter how many sentence structure rules you learn, there will always be a longer, more complicated sentence that leaves you confused.
Second, learning rules is boring, inefficient, and, most importantly, unnecessary. You’ve already learned at least one language without consciously studying the rules of its sentence structure. You might not believe this, but you can do it again.
To understand how, let’s take a more detailed look at how you learned sentence structure in your native language (which is Punjabi in this region).
In Your Native Language, You Know Sentence Structure by Instinct
Do you know the grammar rules of your native language-Punjabi? But you speak your native language well and if anyone is breaking grammar rules of Punjabi, you recognize that easily without effort. For example: ਉਹ ਸਕੂਲ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹਨ//ਉਹ ਸਕੂਲ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹੈ. I hope you know the mistake in these Punjabi sentences. But how do you know there’s a mistake?
Note: A linguist could tell you that English sentences typically follow the structure place-manner-time.
How Your Brain Learns Grammar
The human brain learns grammar through pattern recognition.
Somewhere in your head is a database of “correct” Punjabi sentences that you’ve been building up since childhood. When a new sentence comes in, your brain performs a quick check to see if it “fits” the patterns it’s used to. If it does, all good. If not, it triggers an uncomfortable discord.
If you’re a native Punjabi speaker, this is how you learned Punjabi sentence structure as a child. No one ever explained the grammar to you. You might have never even thought about it until you read this article. Your brain just figured it out by listening to lots and lots of Punjabi.
Humans learn grammar like bats “learn” to navigate by echolocation. It’s part of our natural toolkit.
How to Use Your Brain’s Toolkit to Learn Sentence Structure
How can you take advantage of your brain’s programming as an adult?
It’s not that you should never study the rules. Rules can still be helpful, but these rules are not the entire of language. Start by listening to and reading English as much as possible. Your brain will get to work behind the scenes figuring out the patterns.
After you are comfortable with this, it’s time to go back to the grammar books and consult the rules. This will help cement what you have learned, and clean up any lingering mistakes in your understanding.
In other words, rules are a terrible way to learn a language from scratch. But they are useful to polish up what you already know.
Test Yourself: Learn Sentence Structure by Creating Sentences
Reading and listening are good ways to learn sentence structure, but they’re passive activities. You’ll learn much faster if you turn it into something active, forcing your brain to create sentences rather than just take them in. A good way to do this is to turn your input into a test.
Whatever grammatical concept you’re trying to learn, I recommend you find (or create) a big list of example sentences that illustrate the concept.
At www.ielts-malerkotla.com, you will find thousands of example sentences, well categorized and important for writing and speaking part of English language.
You will also find hundreds of exercises to actively test your understanding of your sentence making abilities, polish your sentence making by understanding grammar rules.