Those things may well trip you up when writing. But in reading English and other European languages, those things can be clues to deciphering the stuff you don

Those things may well trip you up when writing. But in reading English and other European languages, those things can be clues to deciphering the stuff you don't know. They help you see how the words of the sentence relate to each other, so without them you've got a little less information for puzzling it out.