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Read the following passage and answer the questions by choosing the best answers.

How to Teach Grammar: What Methods Are Quickest and Easiest?
Teaching grammar is an essential part of school education or adult learning.
Without good grammar, spoken or written words lose much of their meaning and
most of their value. Grammar is a very important thing to get right, and teachers
should take extra care to impart proper grammar to all their students. Sadly, grammar
is often seen as a difficult and boring subject and one popular method of teaching is
to just repeat the correct grammar for a certain situation over and over until it is
memorized and able to be repeated, like a parrot. This is dull for both teachers and
students, and often only results in the students being able to repeat what they have
learned, rather than resulting in a complete understanding that can be applied to all
situations.
English grammar is very complex, and all its intricacies cannot truly be learned
by rote, they must be really understood — and understanding is most easily achieved
when students are engaged, interested and having fun during a lesson. Word puzzles
are a useful and interactive method whereby students can learn all sorts of important
parts of English grammar. They can be used to encourage students to identify and
understand various parts of a sentence; grammatical concepts like synonyms, tenses
and conjugations; or incorrectly used grammar. Word puzzles such as crosswords are
easily modified to suit all age and skill levels and introduce an element of fun
competition into the learning process, so they can be invaluable in forging a full and
lasting understanding of English grammar.
Another game-based method of teaching grammar that you could use in
teaching your students is Bingo. The game of Bingo is based on people marking off
spaces on their card until they fill in a row or column fully. In normal Bingo these
are numbers, drawn at random from a pool. In grammar lesson Bingo, they could be
pronouns, verbs, nouns, sentence structure, antonyms, and so on — students could use
the daily newspaper and attempt to find correct examples of these grammatical
concepts faster than each other, thereby “winning” the game — and learning in the