Pay attention in elementary school, and do not try to improve your language skills by

listening to rap.

It’s a little late on both accounts. How can I learn English grammar?

You could sit in on English Second Language or ESL classes. There are churches and libraries

that offer those sessions for free.

That’s a little too elementary for me.

Try reading true literature.

I’m not going to learn modern English grammar from Shakespeare.

Thou dost protest too much. If you want a truly modern solution, try one of the learn

English grammar apps on the Google or iTunes app store.

I’d prefer a free option.

Then hit Khan Academy.

I’ve seen their lessons on Common Core math, where they changed all the names and turned

classic multiplication into a weird matrix method.

If they can teach fourth graders two digit multiplication and middle schoolers JavaScript,

then I think its core and quirks of English grammar lessons are good enough for you.

At least the price is good enough for me. But I thought the site was mostly math and

science?

It was mostly math and science, but they’ve added sections on art, economics, finance

and history. The English course I described is more of a one off, but the SAT reading

and writing practice is a strong English immersion program if you can read it.

If I can tolerate it. I hated the one of these things is not like the others SAT type questions.

So pick up an English grammar for stupid people’s books if not any other English grammar books

at the library. Those are free, too.

As long as it is not embarrassing.

No more embarrassing than the lack of grammar causes in daily conversation each day or for

a lifetime in the form of the permanent record your internet postings cause.

Do you have anything simpler?

Aleksandra Todorova has some simple infographics on common spelling and grammar mistakes, plus

one on 15 grammar goofs that make you look silly.

Can I find a good English tutor for free?

You’ll be good as long as they do not talk like they’ve swallowed a dictionary, or

use long rambling sentences to prove they can pack more ideas in a phrase than they

think you have in your head.

I’ll just go over to Starbucks and offer to pay the English majors a really nice tip

for a good grammar lesson with my latte.