By Inflections, Regards

You'll have to wait for RayH's explanation for his preferences. He heard a fearful wailing of a dog is fine grammatically but it does suggest that you may hear different kinds of wailings of a dog and therefore the sentence may sound odd to some. The plural dogs simply indicates that...

Anonymous wrote: What is different between "some" and "a few" when referring to countable nouns? Nothing. Both mean "a small number of", although only "few" = "small" by definition. (some can be used for both countable & uncountable - I guess you knew that!)e.g. I have stopped...

Inchoateknowledge wrote:Hi,Thank you for your detailed explanation.The apple of each student.Let us disregard verb inflection and concentrate on the deternminer before 'apples'I used 'the' because I mean the twenty apples I have already referred too.'The twenty apples' is what I want to...

Hi, Thank you for your detailed explanation. The apple of each student. Let us disregard verb inflection and concentrate on the deternminer before 'apples' I used 'the' because I mean the twenty apples I have already referred too.'The twenty apples' is what I want to paraphrase using 'each'...

MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your question wrong... oops. Um, I think that does not resemble...

korin said: >Over approximately 1500 years, the mammoth set of inflections of the Old English has virtually been discarded leaving only 's' (plural nouns, 3rd person singular verbs, and saxon genitive) in modern English. English has become a rather analytic lg, where most of the syntactic...

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...

Hello MrP Thanks for the reply. I am lucky I get an confirmation directly from a native speaker to that I had better not say "I'm a Japanese", though I feel somewhat like unhappiness in your way of discriminating the suffices "-an" and "-ese". By the way I feel the word "Japaneses" is much...