During my school years, I would use many words that are considered informal like ‘gonna’ or ‘ain’t’. I do recall a moment in middle school where I was having a discussion between my friends and a teacher when I used the word ‘gonna’ during the conversation. I remember the teacher stopping me mid conversation to tell me gonna is an improper word. I remember this because it was my English teacher and she used this to create a lesson for the following class. She listed many words that were used during regular conversation but should not be used during formal essays. One of the reasons she gave is because ‘gonna’ is not standard English. We were thought about broken English, where it is a conversation between friends where ‘gonna’ can be used because it was more of a slang. She said it is better to use the full ‘going to’ instead because it was clearer in sending the message. This thought me about rules used in English.