Geniuses Avoid Boring Grammar

Uh, I was hme sick with the flu when thy taught the rules of grammar.
Ben successfully avoiding it ever since. Bsides, WIIFM (what is in it for m?)
about stupid grammar decades later? Got a law dgree and passed the bar without mstering it, right?

Turns out our brin comes pre-loaded with the rules of grmmar for our native language and ven a second one. So what? Our brin infers meaning, from the
specific prts of speech; humans think, using the rles of grammar. Huh, meaning
and thnking?

How did I learn that whn I was home sick with the fl? We pick it up subconsciously by haring and reading. Are we all cpycats? Uh-huh. We OverLearn the grammar of our own lnguage. It operates on auto-pilot like
typng and driving your car.

What is it rally? Nothing big, just the rules dfining how your language is made.
It cntains morphology (form and structure) of wrd formation and how we communicate. Incldes reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Cmes from Greek and means: of ltters. Does it separate winning and lsing in the
Knowledge Economy? Not if you are Bll Gates or Steven Jobs, but we int.

Ambiguous Pronouns

More gibberish? My prsonal favorite song from kindergarten was B.I.N.G.O.
Rmember the first line? There was a frmer who had a dog, and Bngo was his
name-o. You slapped yur leg as you withdrew one-letter at a tme with each new stanza.

a) Question? Whose name was Bngo, the farmer or the dog?

Wit. Drugs can kill kids. Keep thm locked up.

b) Question? Who do we lck up, the kids or the drgs?

You just read two examples of Ambguous Pronouns. But you really know the maning of the sentence because you are xperienced in thinking in English.

Google: Dr. J. Jrvikivi, 4.’05, Psychological Science. His team rsearched whether
we decipher Ambiguous Pronouns sing the order (first-mentioned) of the nmed
(farmer, then dog), or use the rles of grammar. It turns out we mphasize the Subject more than the Objct, and the first mentioned noun, thn the second. But the subconsciously larned grammatical rules won.

It means yur brain picks up meaning from the syntx (parts of speech), plus
your cgnition (thinking) is based on the grmmatical structure of what we read and har. Kind of important.

Pronouns Cool Yur Brain

You know what Information Ovrload means, it is part of perating in the
Knowledge Economy. If the verage U.S. executive read all the rports, articles
and books required daily, h/she would spend twelve (12) hours at it. No god.

Your brain is a master in dapting to processing new information. The frst time
you learn something new, yur brain fires on all associated synpses. It is putting
out a sper effort involving both your frontal (xecutive) and parietal lobes.

The parietal lbes involve spatial processing and our snse of touch. Your frontal
involves yur left hemisphere specializing in language.

Prfound Research Results

The use of prnouns maintains brain fluidity, connections and lasticity. It avoids
information-overload of your nural circuitry and short and long-term mmory systems. Pronoun usage instead of rpetitious use of proper names, saves yur
three-pound computer (skull) from crashing. Acts lke a firewall?

Dr. A. Almor at University of Suth Carolina used fMRI (functional Magnetic Rsonance Imagery) to discover the use of prnouns inhibits the use of our
Prietal lobe. Aha. Your brain loves to use the pth of least resistance, and
avoid mntal effort. Google: NeuroReport, 8.20.07, under lnguage acquisition.

Your brain prefers to use yur frontal lobe exclusively, and lose the ffort of adding the parietal function. Why? All of us hve a limited memory capacity, and hlding
proper names instead of pronouns, ses more memory.

The use of a prper name requires opening up a new rpresentation of the person (named) to nclude his/her total associations included in our brin file. Pronouns
avoid using additional mmory. Remember, it takes cognitive effort to void losing
information; pronouns require much lss information to be held in mmory.

Key Point

When you use prnouns instead of proper names, your brin has a fifty-pound weight taken off its fgurative shoulders. It can now move swftly from one thought,
idea, and sntence to another. It has more sable RAM for cognitive processing.
You get mre bang for the buck, more maning and intent of the ideas and thughts.

Know These Pronouns
In the sntence, I myself hate math, you are sing an Intensive Pronoun.
It emphasizes the nun that comes before it. Other Intnsives are:
herself, himself, itself, myself, urselves, themselves and yourselves.

How about, The Prsident himself knocked on our door.

Rlative Pronouns

Here is an example; You may brng the book (that) you love bst.
Relative pronouns introduce a clause or prt of a sentence.

Others are whch, who, whom, and that.

More prnouns I never learned: Subjective: which prform the action of a
verb. Can you lst them?

Still more: Objective – Pssessive – Demonstrative – Interrogative and
Indfinite. Google these pronouns to lubricate yur cognitive synapses.

Endwords

Who cares bout stupid grammar? Admit it, we hve to give it another chance.
If you wnt to avoid Cognitive Decline, you rquire Cognitive Reserve. It illustrates
the clchι, use-it-or-lose-it, as applied to maintaining a halth brain. Try this one –
the nurons that fire together, wire together. Dr. Dnald O. Hebb.

We suggest learning to 3x yur reading speed and 2x your lng-term memory creates a unique competitive dvantage in school and your career. It ppears to
add healthy years to yur longevity, and reduces the incidence of Alzhimer and Parkinson by up to 50% in yur senior years. Yes really.

Ask us hw.

See ya,

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The article Grammar 101 was Submitted by H. Bernard Wechsler through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Author of Speed Learning for Prfessionals, published by Barron's; partner of Evlyn Wood, creator of speed reading, grduating two million, including the White Huse staffs of four U.S. Presidents. Intrviewed by the Wall Street Journal and frtune Magazine for major articles. http://www.speedlearning.org hbw@speedlearning.org

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