Dear Brother Oldfella,
I cannot remember when EMB implemented its policy of eliminating teaching English Grammar in local schools as I have already casted my no-confidence vote to the authorities since 1990 by sending my two children to study abroad.
At my primary education, I studied at government primary school and had my first English book at P.3 . I still remembered now how it looked then. It was a colourful story book named "John and Mary" being taught in Great Britain at that time.
But my memory was blurred as to when I started being taught English Grammar. As far as I can remember, English Grammar was taught throughout my 5-year secondary education. I did not read too many books or magazines outside school curiculum.
It was after I have started to work that I became aware of the importance of writing and speaking correct English. I then put into practice of the following simple method :
IPUT - read as many articles and as frequent as I want to;
SAVE TO MEMORY - memorize as many words, phrases, clauses, sentences and nicely written articles as I can;
OUTPUT - from my memory, search for appropriate words, phrases, clauses and sentences , put them in my writings.
Unfortunately, there are always problems with RAMs in my memory and output mechanism somewhere inside my body that either the materials stored just fade away and cannot be restored or the searching mechanism in findling appropriate wordings simply fails frequently. As a result, my output is generally not satisfactory ! Therefore, please excuse me, brothers !
