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It seems when people are learning English, there are a number of verbs they are first taught cannot take the progressive, the -ing form. Then, when their English becomes more advanced, they learn that these verb (liking, loving, feeling, being) CAN take the -ing form when you want to...

Studies of languages have shown that any given language will compensate for complexity in one area with simplicity in another and that if you compare any two languages that they have roughly the same number of complex and simple areas. Consider the following: Imagine a language with only...

Miriam wrote the following two quotes: There are cases in which "and" and/or "to" are omitted between two verbs, such as in "go get your coat" (instead of "go and get your coat") or in "go do your homework" (instead of "go and/to do your homework"). I don't know the reason for this, and I...