819. What does it really mean to be “good at English”?
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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The Importance of Appropriacy in English Conversation
Grammatical range is the number of different grammatical forms that you can use to express yourself. The key indicators are the variety of words used, the adequacy and appropriacy of the words used. Your grammatical resource is your shelf in the language supermarket in your head. In English, our spoken vocabulary can be quite informal, quite friendly, and relaxed. So it doesn't mean using very formal language or using very specialist terms but using the sort of everyday English that most people use in conversation.
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