Teaching Tricky English: More the Exception than the Rule
Teaching Tricky English: More the Exception than the Rule

Summary/Abstract: This article tackles the irregularities of English language and the means of dealing with them. Starting from a short presentation of the history of English language and the way it has evolved throughout time, the present paper aims at understanding the underlying reciprocity of various levels of grammar that generates complexity and irregularity at one level, triggering at the same time changes at another level, having as a result an alteration of the symmetry of forms distribution in grammar. At some point in the process of learning English, students tend to get frustrated because almost no rule in English is straightforward and there are always exceptions to a rule; more than that, it somehow seems that breaking rules in English grammar has become a rule itself. However, in-depth understanding of grammar structures may prove useful for learners in order to master the use of English.

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