Grammar

I am of the idea of who needs grammar. I don’t think that at any time in my life grammar has helped me be a better writer. It did not help me spell better or know how to express myself better. I take this back though; I was surprised on Williams’s statement that even babies in the womb we are already starting to “internalize grammar”. This makes a great deal of sense though when you look at our infants and how they are already reacting to your speech. They hear most everything we say and already recognize our voices when born; why not understand how we say it?
My two year old son is started to form sentences and in his speech he says pretty much the exact same thing on pg 178, “the barked postman god at my”. Then we immediately correct him and he restates what he just said. He is not in school and we are already teaching grammar. By the time he gets to school he will already be able to compose that sentence correctly. Do we need to continue to teach him the same thing that he was taught before he even stepped into a classroom? I am not sure. Like I stated at the beginning, I did not think that grammar was all that important. There does need to be something taught in the classroom about our language that we speak as Williams’s states. Maybe we need to relook at the class that we are teaching this in. I don’t think that grammar needs to be in a Literature or Writing class, maybe we need to have a language usage class that covers this information.
I did not think that I would enjoy this chapter of the book and am coming away surprised that I did. I appreciate the fact that Williams included plenty of examples to visually see and I think this made his point stronger.