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Question A tourist company which organises coach tours of your home town has placed the following advertisement in your local newspaper: TOUR GUIDES REQUIRED Are you an outgoing and sociable person, who has a good command of English and some knowledge of local history? If so, then we would...

Randy_Tam wrote: As I said earlier, what a native speaker looks more on is the meaning (which, if broadly defined, can be regarded as a 'rule'. After all, language as a whole can be defined as a 'social institution'.) instead of the structural rules which constitute the language, as it is...

Hallo Everybody, Does any of you know a good coursebook for a university subject called "The History of English." The ones I know usually deal with just one period of the development of English or with only one aspect of the language. I will be grateful for any suggestions. Cairn

I got this kind of knowledge through OED and a cheap book written by late Toshio Nakao who was a lecturer on history of English in some university (University of Glasgow?) in Great Britain. paco

Prescriptive Grammar - Centuries of ErrorHOW GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH HAVE MISSED THE BOAT THERE'S BEEN MORE FLUMMOXING THAN MEETS THE EYE Charles-James N. Bailey Consider the possibility that English grammar has been misanalysed for centuries because of grammarians’ accepting fundamentally...