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Again I should emphasise that these are just my personal views Some of the questions have no right and wrong answers and other people may have different opinions 1 Sitting at my writing desk placed right hand side of open window and working on my English assignment resulted in adventurous and...

Hi Hoa ThaiThere were a number of details that I considered in my last post These included the following Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective Verb tense Using sold vs sold out particularly in combination with the word all Word order i e Does the sentence begin with...

I ll try to give some information on this as a non professional This is how it looks like in the serbian language and I suppose it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used If the english language had...

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 two vowels...

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply I do appreciate it I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

I know that there was a pretty large group of people CORRECT or I know that there were a pretty large group of people WRONG I assume it should be There was a group of people the group being a single object subject containing an uncountable indefinite number of people but it just doesn t sound...

I know that there was a pretty large group of people CORRECT or I know that there were a pretty large group of people WRONG I assume it should be There was a group of people the group being a single object subject containing an uncountable indefinite number of people but it just doesn t sound...

I always thought it was a remnant of the French Norman Invasion 1066 There is a handful of verbs in French conjugated with to be rather than to have in the passé composé past tense Rise to be born arrive leave go all coming and going verbs are some examples We also sing He is risen and we allow...

CalifJim wrote What you guys are discussing is heavy phrases or heavy clauses Yes it s true that the canonical word order of English is sometimes modified to accommodate that fact that an enormous number of words intervening between other related words in a structure can obscure the meaning...

What you guys are discussing is heavy phrases or heavy clauses Yes it s true that the canonical word order of English is sometimes modified to accommodate that fact that an enormous number of words intervening between other related words in a structure can obscure the meaning Example They threw...