What thing do you struggle with, in English grammar? ( reading and writing)?

Answer 1

i would say, in writing, learning to address my audience,,,, i might have something i think is great to write about, yet if i dont present it in a way the reader can relate to,,,, my thoughts/ideas will not be accepted

Answer 2

Ironically, I struggle with writer's block.

I have been told many times my grammar is on point, and enjoy writing essays.

It's not until the teacher has us write an essay on anything, that I get writer's block.

I tend to read a lot, so that is how I was able to improve my grammar, which is due to the fact I didn't speak English until I was 10. (Yes, I was born in California, but my parents knew nothing to teach me in English.)

So if you need to improve your grammar, read a few good books and you will improve dramatically.

Answer 3

Hmmm. What an interesting question.

I've been a grammarian (and a teacher of grammar) for most of my life. I checked out your Q because I was curious about the answers you would receive.

Interesting that most people don't have problems with grammar so much as with writer's block. Same here, mainly because I was taught grammar-grammar-grammar as a child, not writing!

But then doubledoubleplain caught my attention. "I feel sort of stupid writing this but...," and then confessed to a problem with affect and effect (not grammar actually but word choice or diction, but that's a teacher's quibble).

Well, don't feel stupid, ddp. We all have these shibboleths. Mine is further and farther. I grew up with a regional dialect which had us say "fuhther" for both of them. So even though I've been an English teacher and a speaker of standard English for years and years and years, that original dialect is still primary. So I catch myself and remember not to say "fuhther," but then I can't remember whether to say farther or further right away--so there's this gap in my talk. Or, more often, I say the wrong one!

Well, I could go fuhther . . . er, further . . . er, farther . . . er, on. But enough is enough!

Cheers!

(And, as an English teacher I can tell you that one of the biggest problems most people have with grammar, is the meaning of the word itself . . . but that's another issue, isn't it?)

Answer 4

Sometimes I can write like someone took over my pen and I am channeling some really good writer. Other times I struggle to get out a mundane paragraph.

Writer's Block is the bane of my existence.

Answer 5

Oddly enough, short sentences. I cannot write anything that resembles a magazine paragraph. I get bored when I read them and when I write them, people tend to become confused. Mainly due to the fact that I tend to assume that people understand what I'm saying and thus leave out important things- like verbs, sentences, phrases. Which is why I'm on answers. How else can I learn how to shorten my trains of though so I don't leave out the important information?

Answer 6

I don't struggle with grammar. I know my grammar rules really well.
I do have trouble expanding on points in my essays though. It drives me crazy. I'm improving though.

Answer 7

analyzing a sentence, when they get really technical like subordinating conjunction, adverb clause and all that stuff nobody ever remembers except your teacher
Also, having to write on a subject I don't like

Answer 8

I feel sort of stupid writing this but...

The difference between affect and effect. I've never been able to understand which is appropriate to use when.

Answer 9

Grammar...grammar...grammar...i know how to speak it right but i just can't remember what it's called sometimes! (i.e. preposition, interjections...and etc) It's SOOOOO HARD!

Answer 10

Punctuation!?&;
Seriously punctuation and run on setences.