2. MEMORIZE WHOLE PHRASES.
Knowing individual words is a good first step, but it’s often better to learn commonly used sentences or phrases. Once you have a full sentence down, you will know how to create similarly structured sentences by simply swapping out nouns and verbs. For example, if you’ve got a base sentence memorized like “I would have bought the eggs, but they were broken” you only need to change the nouns and verbs to get similar sentences like “I would have read the book, but it was too long” or “I would have worn my blue sweater, but it was torn.”
