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I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t teaches students how to ask for vocabulary words. ...

. pejoration -- No. What happened to pluperfect ? Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? -- A noun Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?-- Pronunciation. I'm not going to be very coy with this one, because I don't think it's in anyone's active...

Is it ... an adjective? a noun? a verb? Would you say it's related to ... grammar? vocabulary? pronunciation?

Hello, another English teacher here. I have been teaching English in China for about 2 and a half years now and also speak fluent French, decent Spanish and am learning Chinese (not as hard as you may think once you get the hang of those tones, easy grammar). Now I'll start off by saying that...

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year! But I'm trying to be happy. I'm pulled into a debate over "the very English standard" in a Chinese translation forum. A "sensible" lad who crammed in China's New Oriental Language School asserts that many usages, including those in nytimes.com, economist.com,...

Forbes wrote: Cool Breeze, your English is faultless! I think that Mr P has hit the nail on the head. In English the complexity resides in the syntax. Many say that English has no "grammar" because you do not need to grapple with conjugations and declensions, but of course if it had no...

Mister Micawber wrote: If the test is anything like the ETS tests (TOEFL, etc), Clive, then it tests both grammar and vocabulary. The TOEIC section offers the two types of questions in a roughly 50/50 ratio. It is among the vocabulary set. The section which this question is in consists of 18...

Hi, You told me that the noun prosecution can take a singular verb form. It means it can also be written in plural verb form.So if you know the grammar explanation for it, please, let me know. It's not really a matter of grammar, it's a matter of vocabulary and meaning. We can think of...

"Grammar and exercises are only requirements of the syllabus, not of learning a language. Did you learn the grammar of your mother-tongue when you were acquiring it? Most of you may still not know the grammar of your mother-tongue but you speak it effortlessly." If grammar means identifying...

Anonymous wrote: Surely the hardest language for anybody to learn is that of a language isolate, whose grammer and vocabulary carry no comparisons to any other language they may speak. An example is basque, whose grammar system takes declension to the extreme: "A Basque noun is inflected in...