By Vocabulary, Nouns

Re: Differences between English and your native language

Finnish is extremely rich in compounds. This because all concepts are written as one word. Therefore all of these examples are compounds in Finnish: a collection of butterflies, a heap of sand, a bottle of beer, a department store, foreign policy, air force, labour permit, night train etc. Since...

Vocabulary--Conformity

Hello everyone. It has been a long time since I posted. Since my last post I have been working hard on improving my vocabulary and writing skills. I still have trouble understanding and using some words, mainly nouns ending in ity like the word conformity. I have written a few sentences using...

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

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...

People fought in a Chinese translation forum

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,...

New Word Definition With 10 Scentences......

As long as I am very poor in English vocabulary, I thought it would be good to learn new vocabularies through games. Let us see if you like it or not? The game start like this, New Word Will Be Added here WITH it's defintion, each member follows should put the word in a sentence or small...

Re: The infinitive "to be"

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures! You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want. On the other hand, want takes a clause as its complement. I want (He helps us). But the complement...

Re: The running boy is my son

I may be wrong, but I think a person needs a fairly extensive vocabulary to come up with these kinds of examples. Often simple participles like running, swimming, cooking, dancing, and so on, are not often used before nouns, or if they are, it's not the easiest thing in the world to invent...

Re: Proficiency alongside "poverty".

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 grammar...

Re: base for this usage

Hi, I hesitate to discuss the uses of nouns in such a very theoretical way. I'd just prefer to say that English vocabulary seems to me to be very flexible, and that a very great deal depends on the context. So, are you saying virtually any word can be used differently (ie. different than...

Re: About the tenses 6

Have you started doing more reading yet, VT?I have never heard of anybody named Christ except for Jesus Christ.I also doubt that anyone has ever tried to refer to any girl as a "filial piety girl". If you are trying to learn how to use vocabulary, the BNC might be a good source for you. You can...