By Learning English, Nouns

Paco, Many, perhaps most, ESL students learn "intuitively". Repeat, repeat, repeat. Memorize, memorize memorize. Try the best you can at any point to communicate what you want to say. Not only are "advervial objectives" irrelevant to such learners, but so are "nouns" and "verbs" to some...

Hello Julielai I would say: 1. XYZ is the wrong approach to learning English. 2. XYZ is the wrong way to learn English. 'approach to' requires a noun (here, verbal): you have to 'approach' an object of some kind. MrP

Hello hanuman I think you can take "here" in the "from here" as a noun, if you think it will be more convenient for your learning English. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the...

I sympathize with Jeff. When I was learning English--that's decades ago--I read a grammar book delineating the same rule as Jeff brought up. As years passed, I realized that's a rather weird rule. I checked it with native speakers, they said in unison to the effect that I should forget the...

I've read the thread, and what a wonderful discussion it is! Here are my humble thoughts on the distribution: Dangling (1) *After eating lunch, my bike was fixed. 'After eating lunch', an adverbial phrase, has the following internal structure: preposition + gerund + object. The main clause...

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...

I am also stuying very hard. Gosh, I am having problems with questions. Do you know that making the right question is most difficult part of learning English? What do you mean by "predict" pronouns, Miriam?

importance and difference are nouns. important and different are adjectives. example; "she is an important person in our group" "one should know the importance of learning English" "tom and dick have differences in their opinions" "tom had a different idea" hope it helps!

First of all, let me point out a slight exception to my earlier answer. Sometimes in casual English the noun may be left out if it's obvious from the context. For instance, if we work in a shop and I say to you, "That guy is a regular." In that case regular=regular customer. Occasionally the...

It's a shame that your school, like too many others in this country, decided that the study of grammar was dispensable. It gives you a significant handicap when studying foreign languages if you don't know the technicalities of your own language's grammar. (Not everyone would agree with that...