By Spelling, Regards

Yes. My apologies. I have a tendency to freely mix English and American spellings. It's a bad habit, I know, but I tend to regard both dialects as equally acceptable on the internet. In this particular case, I pulled the definition from Merriam-Websters, which is of course an American...

Well, you asked for an OPINION, so here's mine: I have an unorthodox view on punctuation. I don't really regard it as part of grammar proper. Like spelling, punctuation is an artifact of writing, of WRITTEN language. Grammar existed long before writing existed. Puncuation did not. I therefore...

Hello all . I am a newcomer to this site and it is my first time on this forum. 1. I think some of the tenses are unnecessary. For example, why does English have so many different tenses. In the Chinese language, it uses time reference to reflect when things are said or done instead of...