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I understand official documents have to be written following rules and exam papers, essays, practical reports, and so, too. But if you are talking about Literature all styles are valid. That's my view. Remember how trellis answered questions here at EF? He had his personal style that made his...

Oh. I went to USA public schools and I did not know that about USA and commas. Maybe my USAness was corrupted by the 11 years in London ages 17 to 28? I usually never put a comma with and, or and but. Am I all mixed up? I am not a grammar expert. Not at all. I daydreamed through the...

I don't think English is that complicated, really. I think the main problem is that it just has way too many exceptions. It's a partly deteriorated hodge-podge of a language, and so its difficulty, it seems to me, lies not in the complexity of its grammar but rather in its lack of unity and...

Introduction taken from http://www.ead.ufms.br/letras/Literature/01-Origins_Of_English.pdf Origins of English (up to 1066) Historical Background Before the time of the Roman colonization in A.D. 43, Britain was populated by Celts and Britons, relatively primitive people without organized...

There are several courses in Old English which you can do, but if you want to read Shakespeare in the original, any play you pick up will be in the original Elizabethan English. If you look up courses in Old English you will get information on English from the 9th to 11th Century, the principal...