For example, in the first sentence, I used a prepositional phrase "as a child" which functions as an adverb phrase modifying the verb "learned." Why is not ok to put "as a child" before "grammar"? I could have put it after learned (I never learned, as a child, any grammar rules), or after I (I, as a child, never learned any grammar rules) or after never (I never, as a child, learned any grammar rules), but they sound weird and I can't figure out why and what rule applies.

I am beginning to feel illiterate. Is studying grammar elaborate flame? Why or why not? Discuss.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204057)

so English has explicit and implicit rules about order.

have you ever looked at the order of adjectives in the English language? it's mind blowing that you know and use these rules but you cannot explain the rules.

we all know that you say, "the big green truck" and not "the green big truck." there is an implicit rule about order.

https://englishstudyonline.org/order-of-adjectives/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOfYlMfDz0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204313)

but how can you test something if you don't teach it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204459)

Native speakers don’t have to do this. It was already more efficient for them to unconsciously absorb all these grammar patterns as children via passive osmosis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204463)

It seems like a tautology but talk to any linguist and they will say this is the cr way to understand grammar and language

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204457)

Ex.

The grammar, correct, in a language is what, to most native speakers, sounds right. <---100% grammatically correct sentence according to all formal rules of grammar (I think). But sounds weird as fuck compared to your sentence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204480)

Ethnostates are correct to fear English’s dominance and take steps to encourage use and primacy of their own native language. It’s a part of a people as much as blood and soil is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204527)

his argument for a LAD is quite clever. before the LAD theory, i think the main theory for how children learned language was reinforcement learning (e.g. parents saying "good" or "bad" to a child who spoke a correct/incorrect sentence). he showed that this reinforcement learning is insufficient to learn the rules of grammar. so the rules of grammar must in some sentence be innate in the brain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48204596)

As a child, I never learned any grammar rules.

Seeks to kind of work in any order.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48205386)

I, as a child, never learned any grammar rules.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48205391)

I never learned, as a child, any of the rules of grammar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5612558&forum_id=2#48205415)