{"id":2171,"date":"2023-06-05T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:43:57","slug":"grammar-sucks-but-it-doesnt-have-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vividolearning.com\/grammar-sucks-but-it-doesnt-have-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammar sucks. But it doesn’t have to."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Tony, was hell-bent on teaching me to diagram sentences and memorize parts of speech. I was an epic failure at both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fast forward a zillion years\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had a student who struggled mightily with reading comprehension. If sentences were too long or complicated, he forgot words before he could work out the meaning. Despite the valiant efforts of Mrs. Tony to prepare me for success beyond eighth grade, I had nothing, nada, zilch in my bag of tricks to help him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I had no language for talking about sentence parts, Ben and I had no shared language for the sentence parts we were wrestling with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My parting gift to Ben when he left for college was a book called Grammar Sucks: What to do to make your writing much more better<\/a>. I can still see the grin of gratitude on his face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fast forward over a decade to yesterday\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n