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Teaching ideas for Grammar

The benefits of learning grammar are cumulative. In the first instance a knowledge of grammar will give the children more conscious control over the clarity and quality of their writing. Later it will also help them to understand more complicated texts, learn foreign language with greater ease, and use Standard English in their speech. Spoken language is living and varies from region to region. The grammar we first learn, through our speech, varies accordingly. However, sometimes there is a need fro uniformity. This uniformity improves communications, and is one of the main ways of uniting people in the English-speaking world. Awareness of this helps children who don not speak Standard English to understand that way they speak is not wrong, but that it has not been chosen as the standard  for the whole country. The children need to learn the standard form of English, as well as appreciating their own dialect. 1. Proper Nouns A noun denotes a person, place or thing. There are for kin