By Dialects, Tenses

Interesting question with an even more interesting answer (I doubt your students will like it ) To tell the truth: We don't actually "need" the 3rd person singular -s anymore, we could even get along without it very well. The -s is kind of a hangover from ancient times: In Old-English and...

I agree with Mike. Your two suggestions works, for me at least. So Nawal should really give it a try. One day many years ago, I realized this from my observation: a Chinese friend of mine could speak so well because he had used English since his birth. He was exposed to only one language most...

Ok, some more additional information for those of you who are still interested in this topic: I explained that the forms of the different verbs expressing "to be" were interchangeable in Middle-High-German. After getting a book about Middle-English I now can say it has been the same in...

Introduction taken from http://www.ead.ufms.br/letras/Literature/01-Origins_Of_English.pdf Origins of English (up to 1066) Historical Background Before the time of the Roman colonization in A.D. 43, Britain was populated by Celts and Britons, relatively primitive people without organized...