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As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

Marius Hancu wrote:Function:noun plural but singular or plural in constructionHi MariusReproduced below is the definition of 'news'. It is an uncountalbe noun.Definition news Show phonetics noun The news that Madge had resigned took everyone by surprise.We've got some good news for you....

Dear teachers, Would you please tell me which of the following sentences / constructions are correct? 1) The candidates’ level in phonetics was on the whole better than WHAT one could have imagined / expected. 2a) It must have been BECAUSE OF THE EMOTION that they were made to...

Ok this is my task, but i wana from u to organise and paraphrase it, please?? Really i will not forget ur help thanks alo0o0o0ot Historical linguistic: History and Development Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of...

A term used in some grammatical descriptions to refer to a case form or construction whose function in a sentence is to express the notion 'on behalf of' or 'for the benefit of'. This sense of 'intended receipent' is often introduced by a for phrase in English, I've got a book for you. A...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute:1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

Randy_Tam wrote:I am only taking Mandarin as a complusory second language credit course, my L1 being Cantonese Chinese, now considered a 'dialect' for no justifiable reasons, as there has never been a clear distinction drawn between a 'dialect' and a 'language': do the 2 not share the very...

This is interesting, IMO: Background on Grammaticalization (8) Grammaticalization makes use of the "observation that grammatical morphemes develop gradually out of lexical morphemes or combinations of lexical morphemes with lexical or grammatical morphemes." (Bybee, Perkins and Pagliuga 1994:...

The Influence of Dadaism with the emphasis on the works of Kurt Schwitters Introduction The reason why I wanted to write about Dadaism and Kurt Schwitters is that I “discovered” Kurt Schwitters on a Compositional forum I attended at my old University. The way of dadaist performance, which may...