By Vocabulary, Tenses

Re: Fell or fallen

To solve the problem, one has to understand tenses and voices (active and passive) apart from having a good vocabulary. I have come across an article titled TENSES which, if digested properly, should provide some help.

Re: Past Perfect Songs

.It is not a common verb tense and aspect. It is seldom used, and I strongly advise you not to waste time teaching it, but to go on to something more valuable, like additional vocabulary.

Re: Native-speaker/native language

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

Re: Regularising the irregular

That merely relates to vocabulary. There is no difference in grammatical difficulty between "it was a/an <adjective> party" and "it was a/an <adjective> party".However, according to your earlier posts, there is a great difference in difficulty between "He...

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

Re: Please edit this for me!

Hello Goodman! Judging by the sound of your last couple of postings, it’s increasingly convincing to me that you are not a beginning learner. In fact, you may be toying with us. I had good laugh reading this! I have clearly stated in my biography (on the website, of course) that I am a...

Re: Please edit this for me!

Hi Ashish Tiwari,Judging by the sound of your last couple of postings, it’s increasingly convincing to me that you are not a beginning learner. In fact, you may be toying with us. I may even have to learn a thing or two from you! One thing striking me odd from these mind exchanges which...

starting topic, could you help me

Hi everybody,I started write English topic to improve writing skill, but I don't know where I'm wrong in topic (grammar, vocabulary, tense, ..). I really want to learn English effectly, could you show my mistake in topic. Please help me :-). Here's topic:I moved to the new company one month ago....

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

of it is not important We learn foreign languages to comunicate we are able to communicate in English if we know 1000

Re: grammar questions

1) Are my sentences correct but with a different meaning? I didn't quite get the nuance between the 2 prepositions. Would you please explain the difference again? a) "The plays had been / were performed THROUGHOUT the next ten years"-- many times /every year in that periodb) "He had acted /...