Dear friend, an interesting question you've asked, and may I present my view on the subject. You accurately define the term idiom, and it logically stems from the definition that all phrasal verbs are idioms, since their meaning, as a rule,

They had to have that specially made? The sentence is in the past tense. Since English lacks verbs for situations in which person A does something for person B on person B's request, a rather long and awkward structure is used instead: to have

Hello. I'm a student of English Department at the University of Education Vietnam, HCMC I join englishforum.com to make friends and share English learning experience with all of you. Firstly, please visit my faculty's website : I think it's a

As I was taught, it is about the morphology of adjectives. It can probably help you to find out sth about Inherent / noninherent adjectives. Tomy.

The most comprehensive dictionary for English is the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the oldest continuously published dictionary of the language. The printed unabridged edition is about 20 large volumes, covering more than 500,000 words. It is

Thank you Cool Breeze, now I am more certain that inflecitional verb is just a grammatical purpose. You're welcome. I think you're right. There are cases in which having lots of verb forms may help make the meaning clearer. Oddly

"Standard" and "non-standard" dialects/languages are each complete systems and equally complex with their own rules of syntax, morphology etc. There is no correlation between intelligence and the language faculty. Whilst

I think everybody code-switches to some degree, as long as there is some sort of reason to do so in their society. It doesn't mean they use two dialects just as a bilingual uses two languages, because people often respond to dialect as if it

Although its content is in dispute, the (click here -->) Wiki article on BrE and AmE differences is a good place to start. It describes major categories of differences in spelling, verb morphology, vocabulary, etc. Some vulgarisms in one

Hi teachers, could u give me some theories about morphology?> i want to write an paper about it. can u give me some reference books or websites that i can get to know it. thank u ! best wishes lindsay