English, England.
Grammar deliberately not taught in the 1970s/80s.
I compare this to my young child who comes home happily talking about adjectives, nouns and split digraphs. Kids today eh?
So just reading fiction / factual books for main grammar learning resources.
Picked up 'Oxford comma' in recent years. I add more commas, for pauses, than most people.
But I often deliberately start sentences with 'but' rather than 'however.'. I like written English to be close to spoken English. I like short sentences. I like bullet points and whitespace. After reading some Scott Adams my English is more direct with important elements of the discussion more to the left.
The fox was quick and brown. Rather than... The quick brown fox. This is assuming that the animal is more important than the attributes.
I have a wide vocabulary but usually choose simple words and rarely use acronyms or buzzwords.
In summary, no resources to recommend but MUCH younger English people will have suggestions, especially those teaching in English schools.
Calling all English language teachers...
What books did you use to learn grammar in your native language?
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Haha.aaleks wrote:I guess it was books like these
To prepare for university we used the reference by Розенталь. Also something by Rudenko I think, and she also taught at my lyceum
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I have no idea how you guys remember this stuff.
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I have no memory of ever learning grammar in school, because it just wasn’t done (1990s).
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Grammar not specially taught here. You just get told as you make a mistake, eg "put a full stop a the end of a sentence".
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