The part where even Native English Speakers struggle: Grammar. Every language has a different set of rules and English Grammar is no funny business. The tenses, nouns, pronouns, verb, apostrophes and so many elements have to be taken care of. Grammar isn’t something one can learn in a day. If you are a beginner in the English language then take some time to familiarize yourself with nouns and tenses, to begin with. Take the step-by-step approach to learn better. However, If you want to improve English grammar then we got something for you!

PTE Academic Scores you on Grammar under Enabling Skills separately. Grammar, obviously also affects the overall score as it is an important factor in a language.

Do you know the parts of speech?

Even if you have studied English at the school level, it is a good idea to always brush up the basics. Know what are the parts and how do they function:

1. Nouns
2. Adjectives
3. Pronouns
4. Verbs
5. Adverbs
6. Proposition
7. Conjunction
8. Article

When your foundation is strong, you are sure to succeed better with practice.

Trial & Error Learning

To learn anything, you need to be open about criticism or feedback. Test yourself, speak and write in English as much as you can. You may have not written or spoken something correctly which means you will be corrected. It is much easier to learn that way. You get to know where you are making mistakes and improve accordingly.  A person is less likely to make the same mistakes again. So don’t be embarrassed when your English is corrected, thank them and make a mental or written note too.

Read Better English

Written English is more likely to be grammatically correct than spoken as it’s mostly proofread before being published. The newspaper is the best source to learn English. Why you may ask?

1. Enough Content
2. New Pages To Read Every day
3. English Experts Write & Approve The Content
4. Vocabulary
5. Knowledge

So you see a newspaper a day, keeps your English grammar skills on a raise!

Sentence Diagrams

It is not a necessary step but it can be a fun way to learn. You can look up sentence diagrams and learn the basic of them.

Basic understanding of a sentence diagram means that you know what the different lines represent.

As you can see in the diagram, the diagram puts a sentence from a grammatical perspective. You don’t need to know this so it all depends if your preferred choice of learning.

Put Internet To Use

Oh the internet, aren’t we blessed with it? Put it in good use to improve English grammar skills. You can use a website like Grammarly, grammar check, grammaropolis: These tools correct your grammar as you write and even provide better suggestions. You can also play fun grammar games to learn in your free time. Grammar Up, Grammar Police, Brain Pop etc are some of the games that can be a fun way to learn.

Do you know what else could be a fun way to learn? PTENOTE’s mock tests, practice and improve. You can now buy PTE Voucher to book PTE Academic and get 50+ Mock Tests and 20 Evaluation voucher free of cost!

 

Let’s Learn

To improve, we must learn from mistakes. So let’s take a look at some common mistake and correct them today.

•  I and Me Aren’t Interchangeable: “I” serve as a subject while “Me” serves as an object.
•  An apostrophe can change the whole meaning. Like You and You’re are often confused but “You’re” = You are. Other words that people may confuse and interchange due to apostrophe are: They, They’re & Their.
• Abbreviation: They can be really convenient or they can be really confusing. For example, i.e. nd e.g are often confused. “i.e.” means ‘that is’ while “e.g.” means ‘For Example’
• Adjective Order: Using more than one adjective to describe a noun, these adjectives need to go in a certain order in the sentence. Adjective order is 1. quantity or number 2. quality or opinion 3. size 4. shape 5. age 6. colour 7. nationality 8. material.

Do you have any tips of your own or any query? Share in the comments!