The Importance of Communication

The basic building block to all human interaction and relationships is communication. Whether it be verbal or non-verbal. If you aren’t communicating properly or effectively, you may feel that people don’t understand you or you aren’t connecting with others in deep level. This can affect your relationships both personal and at the work place. In fact communication is a lifeline of all human activities and lifeblood of business transaction. No communication, no world. There would be no development in the world without communication.

Language is the medium of communication among human beings. It gives ability to talk, to express our thoughts precisely and convey our ideas to others that communication distinguishes man from the beast. However, more communication will not suffice. As man becomes more and more civilised, he feels an urge to tell others exactly what he feels. But for this urge he would still be talking in signs that can explain roughly what he wants to say. For example, when two people speaking two different languages meet each other they find it extremely uncomfortable to communicate with each other, except by signs which cannot adequately express their communication process may not be complete and perfect unless the language used in precise. It is in this context that the importance of grammar has to be understood.  

One of the aspects of better communications is grammar of the language we use. The value of the grammar is realised especially when a person has to write. Very often in conversational language, grammar is ignored and yet there is not much of a loss. But a person is judged by his writing. Grammar in any language is an important aspect of its literature. Sometimes a man’s standard in life and his ‘level’ in the society are judged by his writings. No writing in any language will command respect without the correct use of grammar. If an adjective in a sentence is wrongly used or another part of speech is used in its place, the meaning is sure to be missed. If great writers of the past are still remembered today after centuries, it is because their writings are founded on grammar.

Learning of grammar is not an easy process. But it becomes easy when pursued regularly, sincerely and with diligence. In some cases, people who speak correctly often write incorrectly. As in the cases of many children who go to some convents where conversational skills are improved, but writing skills are not given the same attention. When grammar is learnt diligently, it gives the learner immense pleasure, or he can profit by good writing. It is also possible that a man or woman can get both pleasure and profit by a good foundation in grammar. When a person speaks well, writes perfectly and is able to convey his thoughts precisely and unambiguously, he is held in great esteem. It is said that in the simple language used by Gandhiji,  is very difficult to substitute any word even by its synonym, for the word chosen by him reflects his exact thought. This is the hall mark of good writing and this cannot be attained without grammar. Thus communication occupies a unique place in the life of human beings.

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