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Hi everyone, I read some articles about this, not long ago. Clive wrote: Is grammar essential for learning a language? The answer is NO, NO, NO. Bird of Paradise, the book you read is right. We didn't learn the grammar of our first language before we were able to use it. I...

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even though the o in o-n-e is a vowel. So a must be...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

After carefully reading all the posts again and the article mentioned by CJ, I conclude that operators are all those verbs (all auxiliaries main verbs and modals) that allow subject verb inversion. So to define operators we can say that; An operator could be a verb that acts as main verb in a...

I think you all are missing one thing; it's the very basic question. The definition of operator. Up till now no one has defined what operators actually are. Operators are verbs with special properties as explained in the article I cited for you above. Some authors just...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

A. The present perfect in the passive: A new house has been built. Two new houses have been built. B. The perfect infinitive in the passive: The perfect infinitive is usually used with a defective auxiliary (also known as a modal auxiliary). The defective auxiliaries are can, could; will, would;...

American Heritage Book of English forbades the use of an infinitive in "forbids", not "forbades"! I think you misread that article. Watch out for what "it" means when reading that article. Also, be aware that the sentences given are examples of a particular usage. Nothing...

"I don't want to go." (= I do not want to go.) do = auxiliary needed in this negative clause, present tense want = plain/bare present infinitive, or infinitive without a to particle, which has been omitted due to do These two verbs can be said to be the main verb of the sentence. Please note...

The is an article (the definite article, to be precise), a kind of determiner . Your set of 'negatives' are not of the same nature of classification of parts of speech as are conjunctions, determiners, adjectives , etc. Not is an adverb (albeit negative), did is an auxiliary verb .