Sentence examples for mastering grammar from inspiring English sources

The guidelines called for a shift from repetition and mastering grammar toward an emphasis on functional, communication-oriented teaching and the development of listening and speaking skills.

I've mastered grammar fairly well And welcome any word to spell.

The literacy coach at his school wants to teach children about "genres," when they have not yet mastered grammar and spelling.

Parenting guru Michael Gurian pitches a similar, "nature-based" view to argue that boys and girls learn differently and therefore need entirely different classrooms to master grammar and algebra.

The demands of that process may be viewed as analogous to expecting novice foreign language learners to readily master grammar.

The new functional skills tests will be incorporated for those who failed to master spelling, grammar and arithmetic at school.

"I'm not really interested in that at the minute," Fury says when I ask what happened to his yearning to master basic grammar.

To master the grammar and the vocabulary, he had studied, among other texts, a lexicon published in 1915 by José María Beauvoir, a Salesian missionary.

The cryptics started when I was 14 or 15 and my form master at grammar school introduced me to a clue in the Telegraph on a train, about to set off on a school trip.

'Video won't happen,' he said, 'until artists use it the way they use a pencil.' " In other words, when they get get past bug-eyed amazement at its technical possibilities and challenge it, probe its capacities, master its grammar.

Native speakers master the grammar and vocabulary of their language.