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Many foreigners who come to Finland for a long time or for keeps say the same thing. What makes matters worse is that we don't just add inflections to words, we often change a letter or more in the middle of the word as well. In many cases these changes are so small that, incredibly, people...

<They are similar to other Germanic languages in structure and as there are only two infinitives in English (and in Swedish, for that matter), the modals or defective auxiliaries are very easy and simple to learn. They have no inflections for different grammatical persons, which is also...

hi greetings from the philippines !!! I need your help on the following. I don't think my English is all that bad, but I frequently get confused when trying to use the following verbs. A detailed description with examples is as follows: She has to go. (Present) She had to go....

Re: using "perfect" and "pluperfect" as tenses based on Latin. Sorry, merhdad, I don't quite seize your point. Normally we say "present perfect" and "past perfect" for these tenses, not "pluperfect". But regardless of the names, yes, it's true that English is much more dominated by analytic...

could you please show me an inflected modal. Well, aside from MrP's "could", there's She has to go. (Present) She had to go. (Past) But then again, the kind of "inflection" we're concerned about in this discussion is temporal in nature, and not morphological in form. That is, if it's not...

Hi Timbo, nice to meet you - haven't talked to you yet, have I? Where in Australia are you from? As I can see, your e-mail address is not an Australian one - do you live in Switzerland at the moment? I was wondering you knew about the German forms, so do you learn German? Actually, we...