The Effect Of Using Concept Map s On Achieving English Grammar ...

the language , these rules organize and fit words together to help learners touse the language correctly and accurately .3.3 What is grammar ?The term grammar has been used in different ways. Some people seegrammar as the rules which govern t he language system , for othersgrammar refers to the language that the native speaker use to convey hismessage correctly and accurately .Lewis ( 1986 : 9 -12 ) maintained there are three kinds of grammar1- Facts :-grammar is the matter of fact , that means grammar has information whichis generally accepted by all native speakers .English grammar for instance contain s twelve nouns ending in ( f ) or ( -fe)and to make plural from them you have to drop the (f ) or ( -fe) and to add(-ves ) . Close ( 1992 : 1 ) sees that grammar is a matter of facts which weshould develop to use in appropriate ways .The information is non-generative that means , learners can’t follow thesame patterns that they used with some certain words to suit other wordseven if it has the same endings , so each bit needs to be learnt separately .English curriculum aims to make learners more comprehensive , therefore,we can find different verbs , words , structures and tenses in the stud ents′book , some of these are more important to the foreign language learners26