By Verbs, Using English

Hi CJI'm sorry but they didn't list up such 'normally ditransitive' verbs. By the way, CJ, I found online a Web page that says that Huddleston and Pullum in Cambridge Grammar of the English Language says: "In canonical clauses containing just one object, that object is always a direct object,...

Hello Tallulah You're quite right. We Japanese in general have difficulty in the choice between 'go' and 'come'. We too have two verbs equivalent to 'go' and 'come', but their usages are a bit different from English. We always choose 'go' when we are now in the place to leave, even if the...

to mark the words which are among the 1000 151 3000 most general words such as 147 anxious 148 belongs to the 2001 151 3000 most general words while 147 apart 148 belongs to the 1000 most general words

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Susan, I understand the frustration you are feeling. Your language, Chinese, is what linguists call an "isolating language". All information, such as the time an action occurred, is conveyed by the choice and order of words in a sentence. There are no verb tenses. There are no plurals. In fact,...

Hello all . I am a newcomer to this site and it is my first time on this forum. 1. I think some of the tenses are unnecessary. For example, why does English have so many different tenses. In the Chinese language, it uses time reference to reflect when things are said or done instead of...