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This is the section that I have been dreading since signing up for the course. I've never been good at grammar, and I still have trouble with it. There were a lot of sections I had to reread, or go on youtube to find tutorials, and contact a tutor here about \"zero articles\". I think the reason this section was so daunting for me is because you learn grammar from hearing it as a young child, and you don't need to know the rules, you just know when something doesn't sound right when speaking your mother tongue. English is also tricky because there are rules, but there are so many exceptions to the rules that it can be hard to know when you added \"ed\" to a word to make it past tense vs. all the irregular verbs where you don't add an \"ed\" but change the word all together. This is going to be one of the harder things to teach people, especially when there is no explanation as to why some words follow the rules while most are irregular. If it's your mother tongue you just know it. The thing I found most interesting was the transitive and intransitive verbs. That some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive depending on the why a sentence is said or written is fascinating. It's something that as a native English speaker I never would have thought about. I also never thoughts about how nouns could be abstract qualities. You learn in elementary school that a noun is a \"person, place, or thing\". The knowledge that a noun can be an abstract thing comes much later. Reading that \"Beauty, intelligence, and democracy\" were nouns were something that I knew, but never realised that they didn't really fit into the \"person, place, or thing\" model that we learn as children. This was an very interesting chapter, because as native English speaker, we learn basic grammar in school. Unless you are studying English, you don't really go in-deapth about all the little regular vs. irregular rules in English grammar that you need to know as an English teacher. This chapter really challenged me, but I know that this has made me more knowledgable about my mother tongue and made me more confidant about my ability to teach English to non-native speakers.
