What the science says:
Can you repeat the pattern? How well you can remember and repeat patterns might mean a lot for how easily you can learn English. Remember repetition is the key.
What you can do:
Instead of trying to memorize grammar rules, try to remember the patterns.
Look at the regular past tense, for example. The rule says “to change a regular verb into its past tense form, add -ED to the end of the verb.” If you can remember that from just reading the sentence, great! For most of us, though, it is hard to understand the rule unless we see it being used.
To learn the rule as a pattern instead, just look at a group of regular verbs and their past tense versions:
Rain — Rained
Want — Wanted
Learn — Learned
Do you see the pattern? Let’s take it another step. There is a difference between this next group of verbs and the previous group.
Plan — Planned
Rot — Rotted
Stop — Stopped
Notice the difference here? What is the pattern? The rule these last three verbs are following says that “when a verb ends in Consonant – Vowel – Consonant, the last letter is written twice before -ED is added.”
So instead of memorizing rules, look at the patterns instead.
Por: teacher César, Inglés Individual Morelia.