Did YOU learn English grammar at school? Me no.

giulia - is Italian similar to classical Latin?
I once met a group of young Italians (ages ago) and found I could communicate with them in a mixture of my schoolgirl french and latin.
I learned some english grammar in secondary school - the bit I enjoyed most was précis - (not sure if that's grammar).

cherryhatrick PS: WOTZ PARSING?

cherryhatrick - the subjunctive is a total nightmare in the Italian language but sooo easy in English. It's at this point I can boast about what a simple, logical language ours is on the whole. They say you only need 200 words of English to travel and be understood everywhere!

My experience is much the same as yours, giulia. Basic English writing with strict correction of spelling and sentence construction at the Primary level and then English Language as a separate subject at Secondary level. My first Grammar School loved parsing as a teaching aid and had us define each word in the sentence. When I moved areas and schools and was asked to parse a given sentence, I did as I had previously been taught, but was told that all they needed was for me to state subject and predicate.
I think we were taught the names of the tenses, because they are in the text books of the time, but I only remember that in a perfect tense the action has been completed and in a continuous tense it hasn't....maybe...
Like you I have been asked to help neighbours and friends with their English, and working out which tense is which can be tricky, as English text books produced in Spain seem to have their own nomenclature that tallies more with the Spanish names than the English. Just don't ask me to explain the Subjunctive!

I remember splitting sentences into principal clause, subordinate clause, nominative case etc, in primary 4. I think most of the class was totally confused by it.
In secondary school, it was handy to know that stuff when learning other languages.

My DD said she was very confused about English grammar until she learnt Esperanto and then retro-fitted its grammar to her knowledge of English.