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Dear all,What is mean by the term "good english"?Here in India our teachers and other english language experts advice us to study maximum vocabulary from dictionary and apply it when write  in english and the use of that rich vocabulary in sentences shows that one achieved good english. But personally I give more importance to grammer. I try to write my sentences with gramatical perfection. Actually what is more important in writing; rich vocabulary or gramatical perfection. Expect your valuable opinion in this.Thanking you in advance.

GPY · Accepted Answer

Ideally you need both, but if I had to choose between grammatical writing that uses simple vocabulary, and ungrammatical writing that uses elaborate vocabulary, then I would choose the former.

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AlpheccaStars · Answer

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I read a lot of essays written by students practicing for the IELTS exam. I can tell if students have just memorized a lot of synonyms from a dictionary. Most of the time, these synonyms do not work in the context – the writing comes out like word salad. Memorizing words from a dictionary is not a good way to become adept in English.

Learning grammar is far more effective. If you can't write a correctly constructed sentence, no amount of vocabulary will rescue your writing.

CalifJim · Answer

cat navy 425maximum vocabulary from a/the dictionary

You can do very well with 5,000 to 8,000 words. Any more than that and you're mostly learning high-class synonyms. I'd advise learning those as you come across them in your reading. Just digging them out of a dictionary is not going to help much.

cat navy 425rich vocabulary in sentences shows that one has achieved good English.

Actually, it doesn't necessarily show that, as you probably already know.

cat navy 425grammatical perfection

Perfection is a high bar. A mastery of the most used grammatical patterns can get you pretty far even if it's less than perfect. Once you get to that point you can gradually incorporate more advanced patterns into your writing and speech.

In any case you'll need both vocabulary and grammar. It won't do you any good to learn a lot of grammar when you don't have enough words to make intelligent use of that grammar, and it won't do you any good to learn a lot of words when you don't have enough grammar to form good sentences with them.

CJ

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