By Learning English, Pronouns

Hi,I'm really enjoying this. You're making me think. I'm going to take your points out of sequence. I think I'm still replying to your post; if I misrepresent what you're saying, please correct me. First, the summary of what I'm going to say: A lot depends on theory, and...

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Grammar Geek wrote:Can't we just say that because English lacks a non-gender-specific singular third-person personal pronoun (that applies to people - we don't like being called "it"), and because attempts to invents such a word have been unsuccessful, we sometimes use the plural form to avoid...

These endings come very natural to me as a native English speaker, but they must be hell for those who are learning English. I spit out "...haven't they?", "...aren't we"?, "...doesn't he?" effortlessly.In the sentence you provide:"This is them, isn't it them?"I assume that "this" (the subject...

Tanit wrote: Yoong Liat wrote: If you use a personal pronoun on its own after than, it must be an object pronoun such as 'me' or 'him.' It used to considered correct to use a subject pronoun such as 'I' or 'he', but this now sounds very old-fashoined. Actually, a professor of mine (he...

Yoong Liat wrote: If you use a personal pronoun on its own after than, it must be an object pronoun such as 'me' or 'him.' It used to considered correct to use a subject pronoun such as 'I' or 'he', but this now sounds very old-fashoined. Actually, a professor of mine (he teaches...

Joeviee wrote:Thanks alot for all your suggestions. It is definitely no shortcut to learning English andI love devoting all of my time to memorizing all the exceptions that only English langauge has. Am I right? There is an extremely easy way to determine whether to is a preposition or not:...

Hello Katsudon Hello Guest. G: ? I'm a Japanese student and learning English in school. ? {questionable, possibly ungrammatical} K: One has to be very careful in the deployment of these 'rules' you learn. I'm sure you've learned that you can drop the subject in coordinated clauses, but you...

Hello hanuman I think you can take "here" in the "from here" as a noun, if you think it will be more convenient for your learning English. Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, the pronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the...

I sympathize with Jeff. When I was learning English--that's decades ago--I read a grammar book delineating the same rule as Jeff brought up. As years passed, I realized that's a rather weird rule. I checked it with native speakers, they said in unison to the effect that I should forget the...