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Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply I do appreciate it I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Hi allIt would be interesting to hear from nonnative speakers of English in particular what influence English exerts on other languages nowadays What English words and expressions are used in your language Does English grammar or syntax have an influence on your native language Where is this...

Hi InchoI agree with the previous posters completely I would just like to elaborate a little from a non native speaker s standpoint to a non native speaker We re both foreigners right Since there are hardly any inflections in English the word order is very rigid and certain phrases and...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs They are called adverbial objectives From the standpoint of word order an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb This sort of constructs comes from an Old...

I think no inversion DO first and S V then is needed in this case as there is no DO I would say The more forests disappear is right my teachers used to tell me the more you read the more you learn which is a similar construction the more S V however I ve found on the Internet some examples like...

Please help me with these two questions First I ve heard the following expression Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated Is it not supposed that the speaker should have said following the correct word order in a sentence Never in all my life I have felt so humiliated Second Could you...

Hello meg2589 and all I almost exclusively teach Spanish students with the exception of some American students who are learning Spanish but this is a different story I can tell you the most common mistakes and difficulties that we Spanish people find when studying English The first problem that...