In that respect, I would like to know when and how the auxiliary "do" appeared in English. What kind of people introduced it into the English language? I would like to know who decided about the value of tenses of the Past. They do not

Teo wrote: 1. Who do you think I am? 2. Whom do you think me? I think #1 is correct. According to Treasure of English Grammar (written by Liu Yi), #2 is also acceptable. Do you agree? # 2 is totally foreign to my ear.

1. Who do you think I am? 2. Whom do you think me? I think #1 is correct. According to Treasure of English Grammar (written by Liu Yi), #2 is also acceptable. Do you agree?

Bonjour les abonnés. Hier, nous avons acheté des billets de tombola à un groupe d'écoliers dont le plus âgé avait 8 ans. Ils vendaient cent billets 50 colones costaricains chacun. Le lot est « une surprise dans un carton ». Bien sûr, c'est

I don't think "between you and I" can be blamed entirely on hypercorrection. It's been attested since at least 1596, before English grammar was taught in school. Nowadays it might be partially due to hypercorrection, but I think something else is

I am reading Longman English Grammar now, in which it says both the sentences "In 1980 he caught a serious illness from whose effects he still suffers ." and "In 1980 he caught a serious illness the effects of which he still suffers from ." have

Milky wrote: <I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was

ok.. I would just like to clarify something - I do in fact make my students aware that zero is commonly pronounced as the letter 'O'. I teach to German people, most of whom are already aware of this due to years of English courses in school,

Hello everyone, I have some trouble with recognizing subject-verb agreement in cases where the verb occurs in the sub-ordinate clause and refers back to a noun/subject in the main clause For instance could you please let me know which of the

I know of at least seven grammatical errors that I think are both widespread but easily fixable issues in both colloquial and written usage. I'd like to share these errors, and their solutions, with you today. 1) Incorrectly constructed