# 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](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/threads/part-1/grammar) | [Learning Principles](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/threads/part-1/1-understanding) | [Evidence Chain Template](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/templates/evidence-chain)

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