Abstract

The primary objective of teaching grammar is to equip students with an understanding of the structural aspects of language, enabling them to effectively comprehend, communicate, and articulate themselves through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This study aims to determine the impact on grammatical proficiency by scrutinizing the different parts of grammar, such as nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, in the essays submitted by 39 third-year BSED English students at UMDC. Moreover, the tool employed is the Grammarly application, which incorporates Grammarly functionality. Based on the findings, it is evident that language learners had experienced significant challenges with a diverse set of grammatical structures, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, which are areas where students frequently make mistakes. Language educators are thus faced with employing inventive and pioneering methods to teach grammar to accomplish this objective effectively. Regardless of the activities assigned, the teacher needs to offer students the chance to generate grammatical structures using accurate examples of sentences that are syntactically and semantically acceptable and include suitable and relevant terminology.

Keywords:

grammatical competence, Grammarly, descriptive, parts of speech

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