By Auxiliaries, Speak english

Ok,I started to listen to more complicated stuff (movies), and... I have trouble! I can't hear the sounds, I can't hear the syllablles. I notice strange features... Ok, let's get started. Here's some important points, I just need some advice about them, some comments on them. You will need to...

Cool Breeze wrote: Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any...

Grammarian-bot wrote:Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children.I have a serious problem with deciding when to use prepositions before verbs and when not to. Any help/suggestions.Hi GBThe to in...

Another set of patterns occurred to me. These sometimes give learners trouble, and it's a good idea to practice them until they are automatic. They are drills on 'subject pronoun + auxiliary verb' contractions. Type X1: he's, she's, I'm, you're, we're, they're Type X2: he'll, she'll,...

Hi DSYou have a very theoretical approach to your subject. I'm not sure I understand what exactly you mean by 'a phrase verb', but you can begin a sentence with a verb in at least the following cases:A verb is the subject:1. Infinitive: To know him is to like him.2. Gerund: Seeing is believing....

Difficult to answer your point as I make a distinction between "second language" and "auxiliary language" and believe that each arises for different reasons so that in general neither one leads to the other, except perhaps over a long period. To take the countries mentioned in your first thread,...

Milky wrote: "Especially, in many countries now, the learning of English is not based on the student's decision or will but on their 'duty'. In an EFL context, students basically have no choice but to learn English as their second language." Hm. But they also don't have any choice about...

Hello This is a garbage-like posting written by a poor English learner who has been and still now is agonized by subjunctive things which supposedly underlie English collocations. My way of understanding English grammar The English language uses two moods (indicative/subjunctive) and two...

Of course I don't mind your asking I don't know what your first language is, but in my country, Spanish speakers find it difficult too to understand that the "s" is necessary to form the simple present of a verb for the 3rd. person singular. The reason is that we associate the addition of an "s"...