Does grammar matter? 1. Can you think of any ways or situations in which prescriptivism is unhelpful? 2. Spoken and written language use different patterns for organizing words. Do you think that (monolingual) speakers and writers operate with two completely different grammars, or would you say that they have one single grammar system which contains different word patterns whose frequencies differ in spoken and written forms of that language? Why? 3. Grammar is a set of recurrent word patterns that helps speakers and writers to both understand and express concepts. What are some of the ways in which grammar tells us something about how we think? I do not imagine a situation where prescriptivism is unhelpful. It is perfect when someone wants to talk to other who uses the language in a different way. Prescriptivism helps making the language understandable to everyone. When you travel to another country where the same language that you speak is spoken, you try to be as clear as possible. The culture and the way of using the language there is different. So, if you talk very simple and use basic patterns, there are high possibilities of transmitting the message well. Monolingual speakers and writers operate with the same patterns of grammar, but it varies on content, vocabulary, etc. Let me explain this with a famous adage: “You speak different from how you write”, that means that at the moment of writing, the linguistic point of view changes. There are patterns very simple of the language, and are tented to be used in common conversations. In the other hand, a more complex and formal way of using the language is used in the writing cases; as a result of being as best as possible on a litrerarial form. To clarify, there are some exceptions. One of those is the fact of omitting some grammatical rules when you talk with friends and family, because it is almost more important the message than how you say it. Another example is when you write an academic text. You are looking for show that you have very good grammatical skils; so, you use the language in the better way how it can be used. The language is a way of seing the world. Grammar tell us how we thing depending of how we use it. If we use complex patterns of words, and we have a very extensive vocabulary, grammar could say that we are very analytical. That means that we do not see the world how it looks like, we see it as deeper as we could. Besides, if you talk “Parlache” the situation is completely the opposite