how to improve your grammar in english? I know sometimes my grammar is not very good and many speakers have?

Question

told me they dont understand what I write... I dont know if you can understand my question.. my I need your advices for improving my grammar in english... I get so bored of doing exercises... they are so boring lol I am mexican.. I live in Mexico, I am taking english class.. as well I am doing a degree for being an english teacher in my country..

Answer 1

Your grammar is quite good but you should not compromise your writing with lack of proper capitals and poor punctuation, even in an informal setting.

My guess is that the rules for this are similar in Spanish and in English, they certainly are similar in English and French. The first letter in English sentences is always a capital, this actually makes text easier to read. In addition, proper names like "Mexican", "Baja California", "Australia" and "English", always begin with capital letters.

"How to improve your grammar in English? I know sometimes my grammar is not very good and many speakers have
told me they don't understand what I write. I don't know if you can understand my question. I need your advice for improving my grammar in English. I get so bored of doing exercises. They are so boring lol. I am Mexican. I live in Mexico, I am taking English class, as I am doing a degree for being an English teacher in my country."

You should read good quality writing by well known authors.
I recommend Jane Austen, Robert Penn Warren and Thomas Pynchon. Find a copy of Nevil Shute's novel "A Town Like Alice" which is also called "The Legacy" for a short popular novel written nearly sixty years ago and still in print.

Plays and films on DVD may be worth watching. Try these -
Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas
"My Fair Lady".
"Pride and Prejudice"
"Sense and Sensibility"
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
"Brief Encounter"
"Picnic at Hanging Rock"
Almost anything released by the BBC.

If you can find something in English that interests you, read it. Space exploration, cars, medicine, aviation, history, popular science, geology, social customs in Wales or Charles Darwin's "Voyage of the 'Beagle'", it does not matter what it is. Much better than doing endless exercises.

Answer 2

Reading is one of the best ways to improve grammar. I find that as a general rule, the more a person reads, the better they tend to write.

American newspapers are written to about a 4th-grade reading level and most newspaper editors are sticklers for grammar, so they make an easy place to start.

Quality magazines (e.g. TIME and Newsweek) tend to be written at a slightly more sophisticated level, so they are probably the next step.

Finally books by top authors are usually (not always) quite well written and often use sophisticated grammar and vocabulary.

If you read a broad selection of different books you will be exposed to a broad range of writing styles and therefore grammars. Your grammar will certainly improve and you will probably find the reading quite enjoyable, so this is a painless method of learning.

Answer 3

Try keeping a journal in English. Determine to write in English for, say, half an hour per day. You could also try to find someone who'll read your journal and point out mistakes you should work on.

By the way, "advice" is not countable, so you have to say "your advice" no matter how much advice you expect to receive.

Answer 4

well this is wath you can do. I know this because i have familly that had problems learning and speaking English but the best thing to do is to read , read and read more. This will make you familliar with the words and punctuation little by little you will start to learn more words and you will become more fluent with your words when speakin and also make you get good at writing since you will learn many more words to use in your sentences.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, the only way to improve your grammar is by reading and listening to as many sentences as possible. You need to focus on how the words work in conjunction with each other. Exercises do not work because they do not show you natural sentence patterns.

Por ejemplo, en español se dice "te lo digo" y no "lo te digo". Por que? No se, yo no inventé el idioma. Pero asi lo debes hacer. Lee los libros y las revistas en ingles, y escucha a la tele y las peliculas en ingles tambien. Tienes que buscar las frases que se dicen frecuentamente, y usar las mismas frases cuando hablas o escribes ingles. Yo tambien cometo errores en español, pero los que cometo yo por lo general son errores en cuanto a frases no dichas con frecuencia. Lo que hago yo es que si no se como escribir bien la frase, busco en google una buena frase para usar. Por ejemplo, digamos que quieres saber "me gusta mucho el sol" en ingles. No sabes el orden de las palabras, pero si sabes las palabras. Tendras que teclar y cambiar el orden de las palabras hasta que encuentres el orden correcto. Digamos que primero teclas "I like a lot the sun". No hay resultados, asi que cambias el orden a "I like the sun a lot". AH-HA! Ya encontraste muchos resultados! Asi lo debes hacer con todas las frases que intentes decir o escribir, a menos que no estes en la computadora. Pero ya sabes como hacerlo, si sigues mis instrucciones tu aprendizaje mejorara.

Answer 6

hay que leer, escribir y traducir... traducir desde/para inglés/español..

hay que ver peliculas con leyendas en ingles, parandola toda vez que tienes dudas...

utilize comunidades web donde puedes encontrar a personas que quieren aprender español, y de esta manera uno ayuda al otro... (busca por Phrasebase)

espero haber ayudado!

si me pagas puedo enseñarte por Skype en español! ;)