Is it frustrating running a site such as this one when one considers comments such as these?
“the internal grammatical system operated subconsciously by fluent speakers was vastly more complex than was (is) reflected by or could be incorporated into
any grammatical syllabus- so complex and inaccessible to consciousness in fact,
that no grammar yet constructed by linguists was able to account for it fully.”
“However much we may wish to, we simply cannot give the learner a description of
the language which works. It must follow that if our pedagogic description of the
language is inadequate,”
From The Lexical Syllabus, Chapter 1. by D Willis.
