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I have nothing against grammar. I'm just not prepared to apply myself to it, at least not in the manner people usually do.

I have a couple of books heavy on grammar that I mean to browse lightly. One is Lyndsay Head's Making Maori Sentences (1989). The other is book 1 of Te Ranatahi by Hoani Waititi, first put out in 1962. (Almost as old as I am!)

I’ve started to quickly skim through them, copying out only a sentence per page. I select those from which I know a word or two—or expect to in the near future.