Although everyone has what Johanna describes, that "ability to understand 
language automatically" seems to be parcelled out somewhat unequally.   Several 
decades ago, I sat in on an English Methods class at Harvard, and I'll never 
forget the professor telling the students (all of whom were brilliant) that when 
they went on to teach in the junior and senior high schools of America they 
would always find a student or two who knew more about the grammar of English 
than they did.   I was quite surprised at the time, but after twenty years of 
observing English teachers teaching, I know he was right.
I've seen the same phenemenon when I teach teachers: there is always someone 
who "knows" more about grammar than I do.

Ed Schuster  

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