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Your post implies that Americans have not learned to distinguish between the future tense and the emphatic future tense. It's not bogus that the English language has a simple future tense and an emphatic future tense, is it? Ikia I wrote the above post in response to CJ's post, not any...

CalifJim wrote: If a student points to some construction and asks me if it's the subjunctive or not, I can't reply, 'No, it's a monkey!' Now there you are wrong! You are the teacher and can say any dang thing you want! In fact a smart retort like that might go a long way toward making your...

Deepa, I totally agree with you! As examples always enlighten a lot, I'll give you some impressions of my mother tongue German: I have to say that English in many cases is simpler than my native language. You mentioned e.g. the gender of a noun which is usually expressed by the article. In...