Grammar Evidence Card: From Rule Recognition to Real Expression

Track one high-impact structure per card. Copy it into a private note and keep the original sentence plus revision reason. Do not record sensitive customer, company, school, medical, or third-party material; use synthetic facts or a minimised excerpt.

1. Define the Real Task

Date:
Situation: email / explanation / dialogue / retelling / interview / other
Audience:
What the task must let the other person understand or do:
Time, tool, and length restrictions:
Raw sample location:

2. Locate One Structural Problem

My original sentence/segment:
Most likely interpretation:
Meaning I intended:
Impact: meaning-changing / task-blocking / recurring / register mismatch / low-impact
One structure tracked in this cycle:

Sample	Structural choice	Real relationship expressed	Fits the task?
Original
Contrast A
Contrast B

3. Write a Meaning Contrast Card

Meaning I need to express:
Forms I confuse:
Example and source from reliable material:
One-sentence explanation in my words:
Counterexample or boundary:

The explanation should answer why the form matches the fact rather than copy only a terminology definition.

4. Preserve Revision and Reason

Version	Condition	Sentence/output location	What changed	Why
First	No prompt
Revised	Explanation/feedback seen
Independent repeat	Material closed

How the other person understood the revision:
Problem still affecting the task:
Suggested style change I rejected:

5. Retrieve across Four Skills

Skill	Small task	Result	Evidence
Listening	Hear the relationship carried by the structure
Reading	Mark scope, reference, or logical connection
Speaking	Use under time pressure and repair after error
Writing	Compare how two versions change reader understanding

You do not need all four every cycle. Keep at least one input observation and one active output.

6. AI and Feedback Record

Tool/reviewer and date:
Problem observed:
Explanation given:
Did it separate error, ambiguity, register, and style?
Dictionary, corpus, teacher, or reader check:
What I accepted/rejected, and why:

7. Delayed Retest

Time point	Prompt condition	New task	Independent choice	Result
Day 1	Original task, no prompt
Days 3–7	Rule and old answer removed	Parallel topic
Day 14	New audience or time pressure	Transfer task

Judgment retained on day seven:
Error that returned:
Where transfer failed:

8. Score and Decide

Score 0–2: 0=not completed, 1=prompt-dependent or unstable, 2=completed under the current condition.

Item	Day 1	Day 7	Day 14	Evidence reason
Explain form–meaning difference
Recognise it in a new sentence
Retrieve it in output
Self-repair after error
Stop repeatedly changing key meaning

Current evidence supports: continue same structure / add variation / move to another problem / pause
Evidence:
Conclusion I still cannot draw:
Smallest next task:
Next review date:

Related chapters: Grammar: Let Structure Serve Meaning | Learning Principles | Evidence Chain Template