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Re: I love you more than money

Hi N2GEnglish is a language of fixed phrases and, theoretically at least, often inexact. One reason for this is a lack of inflections and grammatical forms. Anyone has only two forms, the other being anyone's. If there were an object form, it would be used in the first sentence if anyone...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 48 days ago Grammar Constructions Inflections
Verbs

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by ganesh77 125 days ago Articles Prepositions Constructions Clauses Nouns Adverbs Auxiliaries Modals Gerunds Prepositional verbs Direct objects Modal verbs Indirect objects Inflections Dynamic verbs
Re: What is the most obstacle to your spoken english?

From a learner perspectives, spoken form of English is a lot more difficult to master than written. The reason is obvious. We often don’t have the time to compose a perfectly constructed sentence or response whereas in written form, we can search in our vocabulary for the proper words and the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Goodman 1 yr 254 days ago Vocabulary Constructions Intonations Inflections
Re: Question on using "have" and "has" in questions

In sentences 1, 2, 3 and 4 have is an infinitive without to, in other words a so-called plain or bare infinitive. The plain infinitive is used because of the auxiliary do, does or did:Does he speak Chinese?Do they know it?Did he have money?In sentences 5 and 6 has and have are used grammatically...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 1 yr 314 days ago Constructions Auxiliaries Inflections
Re: phrase

Hi C (or Cs): Complementizers: Words which introduce the sentence complement are termed complementizers. CP: Complement phrase. Matrix clause: the construction in which the complement phrase is embedded is called matrix clause. Infl: Sentences have their own heads. They take an abstract...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Maple 1 yr 335 days ago Constructions Tenses Clauses Inflections
Re: A new point of view of "Tense"???

Very true, Aeolus29. There are only two tense inflections in English - the "s" for the present (only for third person singular), and the "ed" for the past. In this sense there are only two tenses. All the other verbal machinery of English depends on combining auxiliaries and/or modals with the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 3 yr 112 days ago Grammar Verbs Constructions Tenses Auxiliaries Past perfect Modals Present perfect English grammar Inflections
Re: Correct a sentence (subjunctive) 2

There is ... no basis at all for including dative among the inflectional categories of the English noun. And there is likewise no basis for including nominative or accusative (or objective) among the inflectional categories of the English noun. English nouns have no inflections whatever except...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 3 yr 172 days ago Grammar Conversations Constructions Nouns Subjunctives Nominative Accusative Inflections
Re: To whom/whom

Hi MrP Yeah I agree to your view that the double objects construction had been established when case inflection was still retained English. I guess you are rather special in linguistic sense. I'm a little doubtful of common English speakers in the sense of differentiating objects into dative and...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by paco2004 3 yr 175 days ago Regards Constructions Whom Accusative Inflections
Re: Your being?

Miriam, Many thanks for your thoughtful expansion of Pem's analysis. I'll first address the specific questions you've raised, then re-state more thoroughly the case which the Cambridge book is making for the gerund's redefinition. Consider the following two sentences: 1. I can't stand your...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by taiwandave 4 yr 22 days ago Grammar Verbs Dates Constructions Tenses Clauses Nouns Gerunds Past tenses English grammar Genitives Inflections

Re: English is a crazy language

>>I've never fully appreciated the noun gender rules. Is it a case of when you are young you have to study the gender of each noun (das haus = neutral noun) or are there patterns that you follow? No, unfortunately there are no rules - at least not for the "simple" words. There are some memory...

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