By Speak english, Clauses

<<<<Such concepts as tense, gerund, participle, clause (and classification thereof) are wihtout a slightest doubt useful and sometimes even essential to the learning of English (at least, this is so for me). <<<Furthermore, I try to undrstand things logically and find...

Thanks for that long and interesting post, Velimir! «Let me be allowed to advise you not to fall for that kind of reasoning.I mean "Look at me,I'm a miracle,I speak english gorgeuously and I don't have to learn grammar",that kind of reasoning.» I didn't get me right. I was talking...

Like most people who speak English as a first language I can't admit to knowing a lot about grammar terms or how to express their various 'rules', but the clauses you've written at the top of your post are correct and can be used practically.

Hi TakaSome information on the most common uses of preparatory it: 1. with an adjective: It is easy to speak English. It will be impossible to swim across the river. 2. with an expression of opinion followed by a that-clause: It is...

The noun after the verb is to be in nominative case and not in accusative. I think you mean this to be true in the case of a pronoun after a linking verb only. Taking your "rule" literally, we must have They invited we. because the pronoun is after the verb, the conditions under which...

Hello TeachersI'm seeking a good expression (without using a relative clause) to mean "a Japanese person who cannot speak English well". "A nearly non English speaking Japanese", "A poor English speaking Japanese", "A Japanese with limited English skills", "A Japanese with poor English skills"......

Thank you JTT, for your replya and your special advice on the English system we have. I am not a native speaker so I have been trying quite hard just to learn how English speaker think when they try to communicate with a Laguage full with rules. Sometimes I just don't get it that in such a short...

I've been learning English for 8 years and I think I speak English relatively well. However, commas in English keep bothering me. No matter how I put them in the text, they always seem to be misplaced, according to my teacher, who is on the other hand incapable of telling me the exact rule, when...

Hello again, Mask. I musunderstood your question, but I see what you mean now. Just like many other English words, "than" belongs to more than one class. It is a preposition in sentences like "She is taller than me", and it is a conjunction in sentences like "She is taller than I (am)." In other...

And who says all British magazines speak English correctly? My way of thinking about this one would be that we use the nominative case ('I', 'he', etc.) when the subordinate clause refers to its subject (sorry, I don't know how to say this in grammatically correct terms), as in 'It is I who...