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Grammatical rules

Can anyone help to comment if a knowledge of grammatical rules help or hinder communication? Your kind comments will be much appreciated.

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bd9r4l$(Email Removed)... [nq:1]Can anyone help to comment if a knowledge of grammatical rules help or hinder communication? [/nq] Will they help whom?

  • bd9r4l$(Email Removed)...
  • [nq:1]Can anyone help to comment if a knowledge of grammatical rules help or hinder communication?
  • [/nq] Will they help whom?
  • Are we talking about native speakers or foreign speakers?
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bd9r4l$(Email Removed)...
[nq:1]Can anyone help to comment if a knowledge of grammatical rules help or hinder communication? Your kind comments will be much appreciated.[/nq]

Will they help whom? Are we talking about native speakers or foreign speakers?
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[nq:1]Can anyone help to comment if a knowledge of grammatical rules help or hinder communication? Your kind comments will be much appreciated.[/nq]
Assuming they're the right rules, they will be helpful.

For example, an awareness that singular nouns and pronouns require a corresonding verb form when the present tense is used would have enabled you to write, correctly, "helps or hind
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(24 Jun 2003) in news:bd9r4l$(Email Removed) / alt.english.usage:
[nq:1]Can anyone help to comment if a knowledge of grammatical rules help or hinder communication? Your kind comments will be much appreciated.[/nq]
If you follow the same rules for creating and receiving messages that your audience does, knowing those rules is irrelevant in communication. The problem is in knowing that you

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