Where Did You Learn Grammar? At School or Online?

[GennGreymane]

Where did you learn grammar?

Discuss.

[Reeve]

At school. I had an excellent English teacher my freshman and sophomore years of high school named Ms. Gundacker who taught us like 80 different sentence configurations and the grammatical breakdowns of each, then made us come up with properly written statements of each type of sentence, and explain how the sentences were constructed. It taught me a crapton about grammar.

[Rukentuts]

School. My high school English teachers were particularly grueling.

I always hated that class.

[Seiken3]

I got my basics at school. Perfecting it online. Was always ahead of my class...

[Temp name]

Mostly self-taught / through games.

[Axaruz0]

The basics I learned in school.
After that I learned most of my English while playing Runescape.
My grammar has been from online, mostly games and forums; bloody teachers are incompetent.

[Frozenbeef]

Where Did You Learn Grammar? At School or Online?

I didn't :P I really suck at English, my writing is also terrible

[Wishblade]

All grammar was at school.

[Reeve]

Funny how instead of learning grammar at grammar school, we tend to learn the majority of our good grammar in high school, at least in the US.

[semaphore]

Mostly at home through reading books.

But, learning grammar online? o.O
/squints
/notsureiftrolling

[Deleted]

I didn't :P I really suck at English, my writing is also terrible

Pretty much this. Everything I know about English, I learnt by playing games.

[Deleted]

i aint never did.

[Deleted]

I am Swedish so I learned the FIRST of my english from school, then I got lots of new knowledge from games. Pokémon and Warcraft 3 mainly. And when being 10 years old I started playing WoW which gave me MUCH more of this knowledge I had previously gathered. All of the quests, interaction, abilities, monster names, item names and much more started learning me a bit of grammar but a lot of words.

Of course since I couldn't learn grammar fully from the games most of it came from school after I attempted to practice what I had got learned, I would of course get put in the right direction with it from time to time and I still do which makes me think that games has been the way to get all of the parts into my head without bothering me and school has been there to put the parts where they are supposed to be and sharpening them.

Edit: I also forgot that GUILDS are a big part of why I learned a lot. They even helped me with grammar sometimes but mainly they simply told me what a word meant when I asked... Must have been tedious for them but oh well it really helped me!

[Hanto]

A little of both, actually. I decided to begin using it regularly in online sessions since the easiest way to remember stuff was repetition, so forgetting how to use it for papers and such became almost impossible since I used it so much online. I learned the bulk of it in school and just improved on its use online.

[Palmatum]

From reading. I was always ahead of classes because I read so much.

[Toffie]

Reading books, playing games. Speaking with guildies through vent.. Funny thing is, I'm from Denmark and most girls in classes tend to suck at English, just gets to show you that playing video games can be a good thing.

[Darsithis]

I gained my grasp of grammar from reading.

[Valiea]

I learned in grade school. I was always corrected at home when I said something improperly. I also had a short term of terrible grammar and typos and leet-speak.

Basically I learned at school, corrected and taught more distinctive words at home, and I still know most of the internet lingo. I can't write a story worth a damn though.

[Reeve]

From reading. I was always ahead of classes because I read so much.

This too. I learned a huge amount just from being a prolific reader.

[Deleted]

I taught myself most of the time online and through games, plus I was way ahead of my class, because none of the english we learned was of any real difficulty to me.