Why English Grammar is Important?

Grammar has become a bugbear because we have tried to learn it while we were too young either to grasp its logical principles or to appreciate the truth that it is the quickest, and, on the whole, the easiest way out of all speech troubles. So, Why English Grammar is Important?

English grammar is not an arbitrary code of laws imposed by some autocrat of language. It is the outcome of age-old experience in the use of words for the communication of thought. We do not say "he speaks" and "they speak" because a grammarian once decided without reason that verb forms should sometimes be inflected; that is, should change. We vary the verb because logical thought demands that, having begun with the singular or plural subject, we should develop our idea about it with the corresponding singular or plural predicate. Once we have grasped this relationship, we know how to deal with the agreement of all subjects and their predicates.

Grammar is essentially a subject for mature minds. It is to be understood rather than memorized; and its difficulties, which loom so large in childhood before the power of reasoning develops, vanish almost entirely as soon as one approaches them with the ability to understand them. Grammar is the logic of speech.

If English is the language in which you think and write and speak, you have many advantages over the person who is studying it as a foreign language. For this reason, reading, if by reading we mean the casual attention that one usually gives to a novel, is not an effective way to improve speech habits. A student could read the books in a very short time, if he gave them only that type of attention. I think it is altogether unlikely that he would alter or improve his speech as a result of that reading.

Importance of English Grammar.
Grammar is not to be avoided because of a poor memory. It is an invaluable aid in that difficulty. Without knowledge of grammar, you would have to memorize every possible combination of words to be sure that you were correct. With it, you have only to understand a somewhat limited number of logical propositions and to apply them to particular cases whenever you need to do so. 

If a traffic code designated at random a hundred streets as one-way streets, and demanded that motorists memorize them all, endless confusion would ensue; but miles of streets may easily be so designated by some such simple proposition as that odd numbered streets are one- way for south-moving traffic, even numbered streets are one-way for north-moving traffic. Generalized propositions are invaluable memory aids. To learn, for example, that the past participle never stands alone as a verb, disposes at once of "I done," "she seen," "they swum," and numerous other speech stumbling-blocks.

As children we learned to speak correctly or incorrectly by a process of imitation, repeated until it settled into habit. Throughout our lives, imitation continues to be a factor in forming our speech habits; but, fortunately, as we grow older we gain ability to acquire standards of criticism and to match our speech to those standards. Adult speech can be consciously correct. Grammar is the indispensable foundation for that correctness which explains why English grammar is important for writing any communication or for speech. No first aid method, no short cut to correctness, can possibly serve as a substitute for the knowledge of the fundamentals of English grammar.