"In 1918 was their first show .." Perhaps, in the right context. Your sentence doesn't normally occur in English. This word order ( finite verb + subject ) is to some extent used in modern English: On the bed lay a dog that

David schrieb: (Snip all else) ("Was that our Tom Henry cat the dog just ate?") Secondly, although it might be difficult to work out the ... possible meaning but the right one is very, very fishy. It woujld have been clearer if you'd

Word order in English is generally more important than it is in other language, for various reasons. In English, statements usually follow the order of: Subject+Verb+Object+Complement+Adverbial(s) You're trying to separate the verb from the

I've seen a handful of misquotations on MWSM this week. I guess standards are slipping to their summer level. Alan Brooks A with an Underwood Now is the winner of our disco tent. Interesting that you would say this Alan. "Now is the

katrin wrote on 25 Oct 2004: why is it so hard to teach SOV EFL students that English is a SVO language? It's not, you know. What's hard is to teach people not to apply the grammatical structure of their native language ... speak Chinese,

katrin wrote on 25 Oct 2004: why is it so hard to teach SOV EFL students that English is a SVO language? It's not, you know. What's hard is to teach people not to apply the grammatical structure of their native language to a second or

I am infact *very* confused. The right title is "Soldier Blue" and I'm asking if there is any difference with "Blue Soldier". In English an adjective almost always precedes the noun it is qualifying, so the title

Hi, I am confused by the title of the movie "Blue Soldier". Why not "Soldier Blue"? Is there any difference? Thanks, ciao Alessandro (native italian) I am infact *very* confused. The right title is "Soldier Blue" and

Elisabetta typed thus: Hello all As you were so helpful a few months ago, I wonder if you could help again. Following is an exchange between two people: True my ass. "Although not peacefully" for me means always "war". A third

right 1. Getting the right mix is difficult even for ... 3, but I suspect those are "pause commas". Jon Miller I would think that English idiom for 2 requires the word order: ¨Getting the right mix is also difficult for ... into Dutch as