are unnecessary why do we bother with them at all? The answer, of course, is that articles and tenses are far from unnecessary. Even in the telling of a simple story we can make things much easier for our listener by using the full resources of the grammar:
Once upon a time there was a mother who had a little girl. The little girl was going to see her grandmother. Her mother gave her a big basket of food and said ‘Take this food to your grandmother’.
So grammar is vital if we want to make things reasonably easy for listeners or readers.
It is also difficult to express complex abstract meanings without grammar. One day our daughter, Jenny, was playing in the garden with her two-year-old son. He was filling a bottle with water from an outside tap, pouring the water in a hole he had dug and watching it disappear. Jenny was thirsty and asked him for the bottle. When he gave it to her she drank some of the water. He was horrified. ‘No,’ he said, ‘that water not for drinking. It for putting in hole.’ He used the form ‘for + – ing’ to express purpose, and it is difficult to see how he could have got his message across efficiently without that complex little bit of grammar.
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