Here’s another problem with just learning single words. When you study just single words, you’re not
learning any grammar. But when you study phrases, you are actually learning grammar. It’s kind of an
effortless, easy way to learn grammar. You don’t need to think about rules. You don’t need to think
about anything. And yet, you will be learning correct grammar when you study groups of words instead of
phrases.
Let me give you an example of this. Let’s just, y’know, take any phrase…like, um, a simple, simple
sentence. He was a bad dog. He was a bad dog. Now, let’s imagine that you’re a new English student
and the word bad is new for you. Of course, I know you know it, but let’s just imagine you go way back to
the very beginning and your first year of learning English and bad is a new word. Now the normal way of
studying that, you would write it down, bad, it would be in a little, you know, a list. And then you would study