New Years Resolution: Improve Your Grammar

In a world where information and communication with others is key, your grammar skills are highly relevant and proportional to the amount of success you will achieve later on. Having good grammar skills, is not only helpful in your everyday life when it comes to speaking, writing and reading, but also helps you when you go out looking for a job or running your own business in the real world. This is why, we at SkoolShop believe that improving your grammar, and avoiding common grammatical errors  should be one of your New Years Resolutions for this year. Here are a few ways with which you can improve your grammar: 

1) Understand The Basics: 

It is highly important to know the different building blocks of grammar like nouns, pronouns, articles, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. There is a lot of rich information on these topics in books as well as on the internet. Click here for a website where you can really learn and understand the fundamentals of grammar. 

2) Pay Attention:

When listening to someone talk, or watching a movie, you should pay attention to the way the sentences are formed and structured. You can also listen to the correct pronunciations and implement them in your daily life. 

3) Practice, practice and more PRACTICE!!

Practice makes perfect, and this definitely applies to improving your grammatical skills. The more you practice, the better you will get. You will find tons of websites with free grammar tests and analysis and should take advantage of the internet when it comes to practicing. 

4) Find Someone to Look Up to: 

Find a mentor or teacher who can help you out with grammatical tips and tricks if not on a daily, then at least on a weekly basis. You need someone who you can communicate with, and who can help you correct your mistakes and improve upon them. 

These are just a few ways to help you get started with this vast topic, and you can get started with a couple of websites we have found, that can really help you. Click here for a website which is solely dedicated towards improving grammar and is also free, and here for an interesting article, that can help you with a few websites. 

Since these skills are required in all professions, we highly recommend that you take up improving your Grammar as one of your New Years Resolutions. 

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