04/12/2023
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8 REASONS PEOPLE SPEAK WRONGLY IN THEIR USE OF THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR
1.THE ALPHABETS:There is more to the 26 English alphabets (ABCD )than they were taught in the nursery/primary or formative years.There were additional information withheld by their teachers in the thought that their mental capacity was yet low to hold such information or that their teacher was not so familiar with that, and several other factors.
Sadly, most people have retained that knowledge instead of insisting on a corresponding improvement as they grew into adulthood.
2.DEEP KNOWLEDGE IN PARTS OF SPEECH OR WORD CLASSES: They failed unconsciously to improve in the knowledge of parts of speech and their attendant functions.Since every word out of the hundreds and thousands of words spoken daily, belongs to a part of speech, tell me the reason a healthy understanding of Parts of Speech has become negligible or unnecessary. There are variations (ups and downs) observable in them especially when a word assumes ,serves or features in more than a Part of Speech.Words like Warning, speaking, undertaking, inconvinience, rescue etc. Somehow it feels to them that they have a resonable understanding of Parts of Speech, but cannot identify them in an ideal sentence. Ask them to tell you what a preposition or a conjunction is, then there will be fire on the mountain even when nobody is running.
3.THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AND THEIR EXCEPTIONS:
It is promising to know that in every ideal discussion, 3 persons are involved. *I,* the first person singular; *YOU* , the second person singular and *He* ( when a male), *she* (when a female), *it* (when a lifeless object, animal etc),for the third person.If you employ the operational law of concord which i mentioned earlier, which says singular subject equals singular verb and plural subject equals plural verb, you will make the first person *I,* agree with has or does because *I* is singular and both has and does are singular verbs; but the reality here is:the first person *I* and5 the second person *YOU* , though singular, do not take singular verb. They take plural verbs.That is why we say *I do* not i does, *I have* not i has, *You do* not you does, *You are* not you is.These are part of the dynamics (ups and downs) of grammar.The fact "to every rule, there is an exception," is practicable here.
4.THE SINGULARITY AND PLURALITY OF THE VERB: They are knowledgeable in the fact that there is something in the English grammar called singular and plural, but on the aspect of *subjects of a sentence alone.* They were , perhaps by dint of forgetfulness, not taught that there is also another information needed as singular and plural *verb* . So they know man-men, president-presidents, player-players, lorry-lorries as singular and plural, but those speaks of the subject of a sentence.
They failed to also know that something else exists as singular and plural verb. For example, comes,-come, eats-eat, heals-heal, does-do etc.
5.THE PRINCIPAL LAW OF CONCORD: Now, there is a particular law of concord which insists that singular subject should equal singular verb and plural subject equals plural verb.Using an example from the previous number, 3 to explain this, for instance:
a.The *boy does* so well with art work.
but when the subject boy is plural, you will have
b. The *boys do* so well with art work.
The example here is a justification for the said rule of concord and the same is applicable to all subjects and verbs in sentences, except for the few exceptions on personal pronouns and primary auxillary verbs which i shall also share in a following number.
6.THE COUNTLESS NUMBER OF THE VERBS IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
The verb, as a part of speech, is a very sensitive aspect of grammar that needs careful efforts and attention to master, and words that perform the function of the verb in sentences are innumerable or countless. As they are much in number, so goes the variations (ups and downs) in forming their present tense and past tense. All verbs do not form their present tense and past tense alike For example:cook, tear sing cut, spread, split are *present tenses.* Here are their *past tenses:* cooked, tore,sang,cut,spread, split;and their *past participles:* cooked,torn,sung cut,spread,split.
If you carefully observe the above examples, you will sure find that there is no specific rule for determining the present and past tenses of verbs, hence the dynamics of the English Grammar.Since there are too many verbs, and someday, you will use them, then you must not stop at knowing them.The need to also know and master their corresponding past tenses and past participles becomes very very important, else, you may misapply them when the time you mean to express for the occurrence of an event changes, then grammatical error will happen incidentally.
7. ASSUMPTIONS: As you already know, assumption is the lowest form of knowledge and too many people have made assumption part of their identity and others have copied unrepentantly.
Words like severally and instalmentally are wrongly used and the latter- *intalmentally* is not recognised by the dictionary.
Pepperish is ungrammatical.It should be peppery.Most funny is the fact that some will say prostponed instead of postpone and prosponded as its past, instead of postponed and so many more.
8.THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOW ENGLISH WORDS ARE SPELT AND HOW THEY ARE PRONOUNCED
Just look at these words for instance: fire,higher,liar,tyre,wire.Their spellings differ.
The difference in the sound of each of these words, is just the first letter that begins them,other sounds are the same. These five words have the same *triphtong * after/other than their first letters in each of the words but in spelling they are different.So it is generally in English grammar. The word Triphtong is a register in phonetics-oral English.We shall deal totally on this in phonetics)
*You must be intentional about the English grammar, if you must speak right and wright effectively.*
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