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You don't need grammar, just like you don't need the highway code <g> (do you have the highway code across the pond?!). Seriously though, I have read writing that was totally devoid of any grammar (well, at least it was well hidden!) and I managed to make sense of it. But grammar, like roadsigns, are designed to get us from A to B as quickly and as safely as possible. I've been driving for a long time now and easily recognise all the main signs - STOP etc. Having said that there are quite a few signs that I wouldn't readily recognise at all - maybe familiar but as to exactly what they mean.... I see grammar in the same way - I know the major stuff to do with comma usage etc (the thing people often get wrong) and for the more obscure rules, I look them up.
I can read a piece of text and tell you whether or not it reads OK or not and rewrite it so that it reads better, even if I can't always tell you what's wrong with it!
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