By Genders, Grammar

Prez1dent wrote:Hi, KYsheeplover06! Russian seems very difficult to foreigners because declensions, masculine, feminine, neuter genders and so on. But you know we have only 3 grammar times heh no Perfect and Continious times)). And I can say as a native Russian speaker that Russian is not so...

THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN OUR SOCIETY Human beings are social animals who live together and by their nature can’t isolate themselves in the place where they dwell which is called society. The society whose inhabitants we are is of two types: the rural society and the urban society. By gender, a...

Hi, KYsheeplover06! Russian seems very difficult to foreigners because declensions, masculine, feminine, neuter genders and so on. But you know we have only 3 grammar times heh no Perfect and Continious times)). And I can say as a native Russian speaker that ...

WesternAmerican, it's really hard to answer these questions without knowing more about you and the person you're talking to. There are many factors to consider: Gender, age, relationship, how well you know the person, how formal the setting is, etc. Even given that information, how you would...

Grammar Geek wrote: Okay, I've asked my colleague, and the slushy one is a frozen margarita, but you can also have it NOT all slushed up, and that's "on the rocks." So someone who orders simply a margarita would very likely be asked "frozen or on the rocks." (On a side note:the MTV and Y...

Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no grammar it would just...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze wrote:Fortunately English is structurally so simple... ?Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today: nouns had three genders, and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German, 's' wasn't the...

Hello! I'm from Hong Kong. I've just joined this forum. Nice to meet you all!=] Can anyone help me to check my grammar mistakes from the essay below? Thanks a lot! Impacts on One-child Policy One-child Policy brings China both positive and negative impacts. It is a very important way to...

Hello! I'm from Hong Kong. I've just joined this forum. Nice to meet you all!=] Can anyone help me to check my grammar mistakes from the essay below? Thanks a lot! Impacts on One-child Policy One-child Policy brings China both positive and negative impacts. It is a very important way to...

Also, for Kooyeen: "The following extract from an informal, casual conversation illustrates several of the important features of informal spoken grammar. The features are used regularly by speakers of British English across different regions and contexts of use and by speakers of different ages,...