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The reason English is so difficult is because it's such a mishmosh language. Like a bad school-cafeteria casserole, it's got bits and pieces derived from many different languages, both existing and dead. It's primarily German, French, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon, but there's some old...

MrPedantic wrote: version non-standard (why? what does this mean?); we use the ‘!’ symbol to mark a construction or form as ungrammatical in Standard English (?) but grammatical in a non-standard dialect (so everything that is non-standard is dialect?).Hi MrP, that one?I already commented in the...

Hi,I wanted to say it would probably be considered wrong because it is not a structure that is part of English, considering English as a first language.It's like the bit-beet merger (both pronounced "beet"). Is there a dialect that merge those? No, you would say. But I could tell you that's the...

Grammar Geek wrote:That's not a usage I've seen or am familiar with. Is it British? If you're not familiar with it, then it must be only British English. After all it's the dialect I've been most exposed to.

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote:I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I never said it's "non-English", I said it was ""non-BBC...

Grammar Geek wrote: ...Perhaps another speaker from the UK or elsewhere will come to tell us that off-bounds is okay in their dialect... Not in my part of the UK – I would take "has been" as a main verb too, and not as a part of the passive present perfect. (Perhaps "out of bounds" and...

Ok this is my task, but i wana from u to organise and paraphrase it, please?? Really i will not forget ur help thanks alo0o0o0ot Historical linguistic: History and Development Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of...

I agree with Nona. I would like also to add something:all the Italians speak their language without doing any effort, but this doesn't mean that they speak a correct Italian, because you must know the grammar rules in order to speak in a very correct way. Anyway I guess it depends on what 'you...

I think you're right. I was reading "contrary to fact" as something different than "presupposed to be contrary to fact," but I don't think there is now. I'm wondering if people like Grammar Girl have confused me by making too fine a distinction between something that is hypothetical but still...

Hi everyone, I know nothing at all about Italian grammar, if I have to speak in Italian I just say what sounds good to me, what I've heard many times and I know it's ok. So if anyone made a "strange mistake", I would understand immediately that they are foreigner. Plus, regional...