By Articles, Tenses

My first language was Greek and Ukrainian, even though my background is actually Ukrainian, Polish, Scottish, and Native Canadian Cree. I travelled throughout Europe and Asia through my life, and now I am flutent in seven languages, and can get along conversationally in eight others. Of these...

Thanks for your responses. When I read this sentense, I thought 'concernig' was used as a gerund here, for 'concern' is a verb and there's a phrase 'to concern about.' I looked them up in my dictionary, and for the first time I noticed that the words like 'concerning' and 'regarding' are...

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...

When the particle did or do precedes the verb, it goes in its infinitive form: - I didn't know that. (past tense) - I don't know that. (present tense) - She doesn't know that. (present tense)

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Hi JP NEEDS is the verb, and TO DISPLAY is an infinitive in this sentence. When you have a verb following another verb, it's usually an infinitive. The "to" in front is also a clue. FLEXIBLE is an adjective, modifying attitude. The rest is correct. Keep in mind that articles are sub-types of...

can someone please tell me the parts of speech that are capitalized in the following sentence? A TEACHER OFTEN NEEDS TO DISPLAY a FLEXIBLE attitude AND a sense of humour. so far i have A - article TEACHER - proper noun OFTEN-adverb NEEDS TO DISPLAY -adjective(?) - i am torn between this and...

I have the same question as you and I still don't understand how to use the perfect tense. Can someone help me? I also have another question, I am a new user, and I don't know where I can post a new article and how to post it. Therefore, please help me, and thank you very much. Finally, I want...

English grammar seems to be full of exceptions more than rules. This is a vast topic that could easily fill a book (or two). Where would you like to start? Plurals, past tense, present tense, gerunds, infintives, articles...

where are you from vincent?. I would say yes it is possible to indentify certain mistakes Spanish people usually make and I have a long list of them somewhere in my files, for example one of them would be the use of the definite article. We use articles a lot more than English people do because...