The key insight in this article is that grammar is not about rules, it's about making meaning. "A child with a broad repertoire of grammatical knowledge can skillfully choose how to phrase what they want to say." Quite right; it's a lesson I learned when mapping expressions in English to statements in formal logic, and then, there's a whole lot more you can express with the arrangement of words. The four principles are also on point, in my view. Begin with examples, talk about how they work, play with them yourself. And what's nice is that the article, so far as it can in text, follows the principles it describes.
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