By Sentence structures, Inflections

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...

I won't comment on your post, Su, but I'd like to add a few other remarks. When I was a kid, I did benefit from grammar lessons. After all, English has relatively few inflections and rely mainly on word order, so sentence structure has to be a sustantial part of the basic curriculum. But by...