Hi, Avangi, Many thanks for your further explanation. I guess I know how to express myself much better now. Is she often late for school? Yes, she is often late for school. (Long answer) => Yes, she is (often late for

Off-topic side note: with German (and Dutch) word ordering the problem does not occur because a verb phrase is split into two separate parts. For example, using a Dutch/German word order (V2) this sentence becomes something like, "The

This sounds like German word order. Off-topic side note: with German (and Dutch) word ordering the problem does not occur because a verb phrase is split into two separate parts. For example, using a Dutch/German word order (V2) this

When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word, into your own language. Take the sentence “How do you do?” as an example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time, what is your

Yes, they are indirect quesitons. We do not put question marks after these statements. Here is a version with direct questions. These need a question mark, and inverted subject/verb word order. Regarding the classes, how many students will there

What book is telling you that, Taka? Just take a look at the corpora. You'll find loads of usage examples for "not+being+adjective". It seems to me there will often be differences in meaning or focus depending on where you put the

There's no possibility of misunderstanding with either one. The first sentence has the word order normally given in grammar books for foreign students (= place certain adverbs after the perfect auxuliary have ) while the second makes probably

Word order in English is generally more important than it is in other language, for various reasons. In English, statements usually follow the order of: Subject+Verb+Object+Complement+Adverbial(s) You're trying to separate the verb from the

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