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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't teaching grammar just about modeling it? Kids learn from listening to others. Obviously, children in ESL or households with minimal education would need direct instruction, other than that.. is it necessary?

P.S. It's 1am in the morning, so please don't analyze my incorrect grammar.[/quote]

Not necessarily.  Modeling certainly helps, but I know lots of well-educated people who had well-off and well-educated parents who still make grammar mistakes, or who don't write particularly well because they don't know the rules of grammar.  I spent a year diagramming sentences in sixth grade.  I did not enjoy it, but it was one of the more useful parts of my education.  You'll pick up a lot just from listening and reading, but there's really no substitute for learning the rules of proper sentence construction.  [/quote]

My firm hires only from top colleges, and many of our employees don't know grammar. They had basic grammar modeled well by their parents, so they speak intelligently. But when they write, you see how much they never learned. They dangle modifiers, they don't use parallel structure, and their subjects and verbs don't agree in complex sentences. These things have a big impact on clarity of writing, but they have to be taught.[/quote]

This is shocking. [/quote]

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