Identifying basic grammar patterns

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Here is my longest paragraph with basic grammar patterns identified.

Honestly, I don't think that focusing on grammar will help my writing very much. I think that as a native english speaker, I should have an intuitive sense of grammar and sentence structure. The best thing that I could do to improve my writing on a sentence-level would be to read and write a lot. That being said, I do think that it's important to understand language patterns to learn a second language.