By Word order, Vocabulary

You got it! In two words, be idiomatic. Use the same (usually simple) grammatical structures, word order, and vocabulary that the native speakers use.On the other hand, fluency also has to do with being able to speak fairly fast for long periods of time without constantly stumbling around...

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...

Hi ForbesThank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not everyone agrees with me and what I consider easy may be...

Hi Old EladioI am not quite sure what you are trying to say with your sentences that contain can't be helped or couldn't be helped. Structurally, they are in the passive voice. If you say: He can't be seen, it means that no one can see him. Maybe you had better forget the expressions. In No.9...

It is not so simple as that, Flora, but you have the general idea. Good poetry follows natural word stress and sentence stress (I use 'u' for unstressed and '/' for stressed syllables)-- Trees, by Joyce Kilmer 1 I think that I shall never see u/u/u/u/ 2 A poem as...

G (grammar) SP( spelling) T (TENSES) P (punctuation) PR( preposition)WO (word order) V ( vocabulary) I am 46 years old and married for twenty years .We have got three children,one soon and two daughters .There are six, eight and eleven years old.I am an electrical...

Please help me correct the following passage!!!!! correct and clssify the error as G(grammar) Sp ( spelling) WO ( word order) P ( punctuation) V (vocabulary) PR (prepositions) T (tense) I had been in London for about four days , I saw the Tower of London ,the Tower Bridge the ...

The basic problem is 'interference'. This is what we bring from L1 to the L2 situation. It can be word order, vocabulary, misuse of cognates, phonetics, etc. A few examples: English speakers have problems with L2 because we reduce most unaccented syllables to schwa; most other languages are...

"Sometimes it feels lonely to be here in the big city surrounded by millions of people." MTL, learning a language is not simply a matter of learning vocabulary, grammar and word order. You also need to get a feel for it, and recognise that although you can say "it feels lovely" (subject + 'feel'...

Why do people use irregular verbs? Depends on the origin of the verb, I guess. English did borrow from many languages. You asked: Can we find a uniform of the symbol of 'ed' and can the new symbol being separated from the verb? -Linguistic engineering is like genetic engineering -- it's...