By Intonations, Idioms

I think that the original post referred to the dificulty of speaking English in terms of accent, intonation, etc., rather than to grammatical issues. I don't find English very complicated as to grammar (having said that, please don't throw too many stones at me each time I make a mistake ),...

I am not surprised that many native speakers object to negative-negative question tags for I know they are considered substandard by American speakers and only some British grammarians such as Michael Swan and Rodney Huddleston have found a few instances of them being used. Not all native...