If every sentence you understand brings you closer to fluency, then what’s the problem with grammar drills? Don’t they count as comprehensible input? Indeed they do. They’re just not particularly interesting. If you’re the sort of person who loves filling out conjugation tables (I sit, you sit, he sits, she sits, it sits, we sit, they sit…) then by all means, go ahead. These are understandable sentences, and they’ll feed your language machine just fine. But if you’re not a grammar nut, you don’t need to do workbooks full of grammar exercises. Instead, you can use your grammar book as a quick
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