• First, we have to know the words that will express whatever it is we are trying to express
• Second, we have to know how words behave in the particular language we are trying to use.

Knowing the words is vital, of but the words is not much message use on its own. For example, we may know the French words for a that we are trying to send in French, but no French person will be able to understand us if the words of our message do not behave in the ways that the French language requires.

That is true of every language. If we are speaking or writing German, we must make our words behave in the ways of the German language. Russian words must behave in Russian ways, English words in English ways, and so on.

Every language has its own special ways of making words behave. If the words of any message, spoken or written, do not behave in the ways required by that language, the message cannot make sense.

So When we say that English grammar is different from French grammar English language is of saying that the behaviour of words in the language different from the behaviour of words in the French language.

English speakers learning French must learn recognise and copy the word behaviour of to and learn how to the French language. That is to say, they must learn, language. use, French grammar. French speakers learning English grammar That and copy the word behaviour of the English is to say, they must learn, and learn how to use, English grammar.

Because the of the two languages are different, it is no use trying to make English behave like French, or French behave like English. Neither language can work with any grammar but its own, and we cannot make ourselves understood in either language if we use the wrong grammar.

Whether we are speaking or writing in a foreign language or in our own language. Correct grammar is not the icing on the language cake. It is part of the cake itself. It is an essential ingredient of efficient communication.

When grammar breaks down, sense breaks down.