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Hi franvel, feel free to correct my mistakes, or I should say, please correct my mistakes, grammar, spelling, word order...when you feel like. Thanks!

"Sometimes it feels lonely to be here in the big city surrounded by millions of people." MTL, learning a language is not simply a matter of learning vocabulary, grammar and word order. You also need to get a feel for it, and recognise that although you can say "it feels lovely" (subject + 'feel'...

Reading is a very good way of improving your written English, because you begin to recognise grammar and word order, style etc. The only way to really learn a language is to practise all the elements - reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Paco: I think at least in the case Japanse people, they need some to be taught some grammar overtly at early stages when they learn English. JTT: Paco, this is one of the major reasons that Japanese consistently score the lowest, or near to, in tests of English. This grammar translation system...

As to this, I'd like to put my two cents. When English retained cases explicitly, the subject noun and the complement noun linked by a linking verb were both in nominative cases. So, "I " in the normal word order. However, in Old English, inversion easily took place between the subject and the...

Hi, Ali. This is a really nice essay, and I know exactly what you mean about perfumes! You need a little atTention to your grammar, word order and tenses, so let's try and help out. You have used the present continuous for a lot. (the 'ing' form). When we write a story, it is usual to use the...

I think no inversion (DO first and S-V then) is needed in this case as there is no DO... I would say "The more forests disappear" is right (my teachers used to tell me: "the more you read, the more you learn", which is a similar construction, "the more"+S+V), however, I've found on the Internet...

Please, help me with these two questions: First: I've heard the following expression: Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated! Is it not supposed that the speaker should have said (following the correct word order in a sentence): Never in all my life I have felt so humiliated! Second:...

Hello Xavier, you're right of course: Communication is one of the tasks of language. The Grammar is "late": Language follows special patterns (word order, inflection, cases, conjugation, etc) - language has to follow those patterns as without them, communication wouldn't be possible. The only...

Dear MrP, But isn't grammar that which we extract from all the contexts in which something is used? No, grammar is a set of rules which generate all possible utterances of the language and none of the illegal ones. In my opinion that is, I'm a generativist. I will even go further to...