Disclaimer: Don't pick up a book on English grammar use Google to fix the mistakes you make that is a much superior approach, picking up a book will most likely overwhelm you with all the information a lot of which you may not even need, learn from your mistakes and confusions, you will remember a lot more when you learn from your mistakes.
Grammar is a man-made system to explain the order of words and the formation of sentences, it is also an attempt to standardise a Language. Learning grammar is important as it will let you learn the standard or written form of a language, grammar will let you correct your mistakes. English being an international language is spoken in many different ways. By learning grammar you learn the formal variety of the English language it is important because it is the form of language that is most useful and it is what binds all the different varieties of the language, you will find it much easier to learn the form of English that is used in songs and movies after having learnt written form of the English language.
Many people will tell you to not learn grammar, they would you to learn English by practising a lot but without grammar, practising English will be very difficult and Grammar will let you confidently correct your mistakes.
Don't believe in your instincts you have to learn grammar especially if you are not a native speaker. You can have what you call well developed instincts if it is your mother-tongue because you have seen it being spoken correctly all the time but the same is not true for a language that is not your mothertongue, if you keep relying on your instincts you will never be able to correct a lot of your mistakes, I have seen the same set of mistakes being made by all the people living in a country, as funny as it may sound it is actually true, just by analysing certain mistakes you can guess where a person is from.
-Indians always say, "what you have done?" Instead of "what have you done?"
-Spanish speakers will often confuse between make and do.
-Indonesians often make mistakes with tenses.
My point is, don't trust your instincts and do away with the slightest bit of confusion.
You will be able to help a lot of your friends if you know some grammar and it will give you confidence which will make you more fluent. Bit by bit over a period of some time you will learn a lot and you will be amazed at how much you have learnt.
-Syed Moris
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