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3 GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION

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• WHY STUDY GRAMMAR?

• PUNCTUATION

• SPELLING

• ABBREVIATIONS

• TIPS ON STYLE

Grammar refers to the set of rules that allow us to combine words in our language into larger units. Some combinations of words are possible in English and some are not, and most native speakers of the language simply use correct grammar without having to think about what they are doing. Any native speaker would automatically say, for example, ‘I would really like a cup of tea’ and not ‘I would a cup of tea really like’.

Nobody taught you to speak this way; you simply absorb it from being exposed to your native language during childhood. The study of grammar, however, enables you to use your language so that the sentence structure may be slightly different, and more interesting, and yet still be correct, and comprehensible, to every reader.

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