By Nouns, Translation

Anonymous wrote:The fact that they don't correlate doesn't necessarily mean that the category "noun" is irrelevant.That is not the point of the example. You seem to be reading far too much into my words. I did not claim that the category is irrelevant. No one expects nouns to have...

Anon2 again. In Japanese, there are far, far more nouns than in English. Yet, very few nouns have exact correlates in English. I'm not sure what to make of this. The fact that they don't correlate doesn't necessarily mean that the category "noun" is irrelevant. No one expects nouns to...

Anonymous wrote: I'm Anon2. This thread is finally moving into interesting territory for the teaching/learning of English. What Anon1 seems to be implying is that NO categories can be assumed to be cross-linguistically valid. For instance, this comment: "Whereas when you claim that Thai...

Hi, So the article is wrong. Yes. It seems to me like it might be a translation of some kind. It should also begin with People can say anything You wouldn't write 'at the face value'. Could you tell me why it is incorrect? It's really just idiomatic, that's just the way we like to say it. The...

No, I think I understood you ok. Are we using market/marketing to mean the same thing? To market something or 'marketing' is to promote your services to prospective customers. The client companies want to market to teenagers. You have to use 'marketing' in some contexts to be grammatically...

Hello Jim, No, in fact the scene takes place in the 70s in London. The author is talking about a suburbian boy (whose father is Pakistaneese and mother English) who left school early but came to know intellectual people whom he admired a lot. So would that change my interpretation of the...

Dear Jim, Where is this paragraph taken from? And is the following your explanation of the text ? The bad condition of his eyes came about suddenly; he was not expecting it.When blindness comes, it will be as if someone shut him up in the dark. (No one is really going to shut him up in the...

This may help. The bad condition of his eyes came about suddenly; he was not expecting it. When blindness comes, it will be as if someone shut him up in the dark. (No one is really going to shut him up in the dark.) The blindness will come only after a year passes (even) if he is very...

Wwwdotcom wrote:If you are out in space, you can see the earth, the moon, and the sun. Why can't we say, "we can see the Jupiter" or "the Mars", "the Venus", "the Neptune", etc...?I've been thinking over this question since I read it. Historically speaking even in the time of Chaucer, they did...

Hello GGI feel the English expression "superior to me" comes from a Latin phrase "me superiorem (elder than me)" where "me" is the ablative case of the pronoun for the first person singular but incidentally the same in form as the accusative "me". On the other hand "my superior" might have its...