Grammar Is Hard, Who Knew!?

A good friend of mine once told me, "Speaking is easy, communication is hard", while I never really agreed with this statement because I have found it easy to communicate, I do agree that the grammar aspect of communicating is difficult. While I was doing the reading for class this week I came to the realization that writing with correct grammar is quite complicated. With this in mind I still studied since I knew that we would have a grammar quiz during Thursday's class. The question that I had to answer for myself before I was able to buckle down and study was, why is grammar important? I did a little bit of soul searching and I realized that grammar is what separates someone from sounding uneducated from sounding educated. Using correct grammar is very important in the professional world and it is something that can make or break an impression about you. As a result of this realization I have resolved to dedicate myself to really internalize grammar, not just learn it for the test that we will have. Rather, I want to put it in use to become more refined in my speaking and writing, how this will be accomplished is through doing the readings more than once to be sure that I understand the concept and if I don't I will talk to the class TA's to get help. Aside from this I will practice implementing the grammar principles that I learn so that I get used to the new way of speaking and writing, this way grammatically correct English will not be as much like a foreign language, but rather it will be something familiar that I can use effectively.