katrin wrote on 25 Oct 2004: why is it so hard to teach SOV EFL students that English is a SVO language? It's not, you know. What's hard is to teach people not to apply the grammatical structure of their native language ... speak Chinese,

katrin wrote on 25 Oct 2004: why is it so hard to teach SOV EFL students that English is a SVO language? It's not, you know. What's hard is to teach people not to apply the grammatical structure of their native language to a second or

The hypothetical person who may have made such a staement might have reasoned as follows:- If you look at it in English, it's "to be praised". But isn't that (pardon my rusty Latin) "laudari", not "laudatus