Questions tagged [grammar]
The grammar of a language defines the way in which its sentences are constructed by establishing its structure, syntax, and morphology
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What are the grammatical similarities between Mongolian and Japanese?
Are there any native speakers of Mongolian that have learned Japanese, or vice versa? Any tips on learning the grammar would be appreciated. I'm not expecting anyone to have learned both languages but ...
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English short grammar books recommedation
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I want to study English grammar, but I could not find good resources for me, I want to study shorter books before the longer ones, but I could not find any ...
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How can I improve the sophistication of my Chinese grammar usage?
I'm starting to become aware of a weakness in my Chinese grammar. While in my speaking and writing I'm generally grammatically correct (of course, not always), I don't often use more sophisticated ...
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How can I go from "I can express myself" to "I can express myself in multiple ways"?
Most of the time, I can express myself appropriately in Chinese (speaking and writing). The catch is, my language would sound more fluent if I were able to say essentially the same thing in multiple ...
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Confused by the capitalisation of titles when they are plural
Worked on a project with General Managers be capitalised. If I had written Chief Executive Officer, then I'd say yes as it's clearly referring to a person. However, in this case I'm referring to ...
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Are native English speakers explicitly aware of the difference between "a/an" and "the"?
I know that native English speakers can use "a/an" and "the" correctly by the age of 3, but how do they explicitly learn the grammar of articles in their grammar classes? I'm not ...
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Improving English language at B1 level
I'm an English learner, starting from two years ago and with self-study and want to know how? Just with Google Translate when reading articles and translating words I don't know, and after some time I ...
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How is it possible to have 'standardized' test of languages?
In the comments of this question I askeda, an interesting point was raised in an exchange between two users:
When teaching the language, you have to say which answer is gonna get accepted in the FCE ...
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How to write an actionable sentence in the Dutch language?
I'm trying to improve my GTD system and a recurring suggested theme is to make your goals actionable. Things like "Repair laptop, cleanup kitchen, buy milk, call mother' all start with the verb ...
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How do I learn literature and grammar of English, Farsi and Japanese and become fluent?
I'm planning to become a translator and I can already understand, read and write Farsi and English and don't know Japanese.
for Japanese, I'm Studying Genki volumes and Japanese from zero books, I've ...
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Fairly big (passive) vocabulary but awkward sentences (English)
English is my SL.
I posses a fairly decent vocabulary, but the sentences I produce in everyday interactions tend to be a bit awkward. My sentences are unnatural, I say things that normally you would ...
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How to relearn English grammar
I am learning Arabic grammar as a hobby, and so far I’ve learned how to form simple sentences and phrases, as well as the types of nouns, verbs, and particles.
While learning Arabic grammar from ...
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How to master English prepositions?
I have been trying to learn English prepositions so many times but so far I have failed. It is the only thing that gives me so much pain. I have watched so many movies or videos and also read many ...
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In what order should English grammar be revised?
I am currently 3rd in my college and I am planning to prepare for competitive exams. I plan to revise my English grammar as I sometimes find sentences wrong, mainly because of grammatical mistakes.
As ...
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How to find advanced descriptive grammars written by PhDs in linguistics?
I'll exemplify with Spanish. I'm not seeking books like
John Butt, Carmen Benjamin's A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, now in its 2018 6 ed.
Academia Real's Gramática de la lengua española, ...
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How to understand prepositions in German properly?
I'm currently stuck with prepositions in German, because I can't find a good English approach to them. Take the word, von, as an example. It means "from, about, by" -- according to this ...
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Do Romanian nouns use the same gender as corresponding Latin nouns?
Both Latin and Romanian have three noun genders - masculine, feminine, neuter. What is the level of correspondence between genders in these two languages? That is, do the same words use the same ...
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Spanish vs Russian rules
I am a native English speaker, and I also speak Spanish with a decent accent having lived in Spain for years. For example I know how to roll my 'r' letters the Spanish way.
I have decided to learn ...
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Russian Book Recommendations - Self Study
I’m looking for books to learn Russian, specifically the overall grammar “rules”: conjugations, declensions, etc. Level: Beginner up to advanced. The books should be for self study. For reference, I ...
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Looking for a book or class to help me perfect my already fairly good English
I'm really struggling to write properly in English. I'm making a lot of mistakes. Thus, I'm looking for a book to enhance my skills. Unfortunately, everything I found so far explains in detail what is ...
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How to explain certain grammar constructs to ESL students
How do I explain to someone whose first language is not English the following concept:
If I want to ask you about something, the phrase is "How does it work?"
If I am about to explain how ...
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Is there any evidence based on research that reading certain types of texts can be harmful to your language learning?
I've been learning Italian for some years (at present my level is C1): during that time I've been essentially a self-learner, with the exception of a few months, and I've been a quite active user of ...
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Going from 9.5/10 to 10/10 in grammatical correctness in spoken English
I speak French natively, with a level of spoken English I would rate at around 9 or 9.5 out of 10, in terms of grammatical accuracy. (My written English is at least as good.)
Problems I sometimes ...
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How to remember a big list of grammar rules?
So the language I'm learning has a lot of endings. A lot. The suffixes for verbs and persons change based off of the word ending, the pronoun used, the object even, it's complicated.
What it boils ...
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The "fully grammatical" approach towards learning Indo-European languages
I have stumbled upon this video on Youtube (sorry - it is in Russian).
Here's a short summary:
The spokesperson introduces the following scheme of learning an Indo-European language:
"Learn by ...
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Modern grammar theories for serial language learning
When learning multiple foreign languages, would it be worthwhile investing time into mastering modern grammar theories (generative grammars, construction grammars, etc.) or are those too theoretical ...
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Creating flashcards for grammatical rules that requires a few steps of thought, such as SPOCK versus WEIRDO
If there's grammar rule that requires a couple of steps of thought in order to create the correct output, how do I put it into flashcards?
For example, Spanish has (as well as imperative) the ...
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Reflexive and possessive pronouns in Swedish [closed]
Consider the following in Swedish:
Mannen har en katt. Hans katt äter sin mat.
My question is, whose food is the cat eating? Is the cat eating the cat's food, or the man's food?
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What are some of the most useful methods of teaching English grammar?
As a practising English teacher I have observed that teaching of grammar does not help the learners to speak or write fluently or even correctly especially in speech.only a few ...
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How can I find the correct word order for Marshallese sentences?
I am trying to make a set of cards (for the card game "Kloo") in the Marshallese language. It's basically color-coded for noun, verbs, etc... to be placed in a certain order. How do I discover the ...
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Spanish reading passages with a focus on specific grammar
Is there such a thing as reading passages where the passage has been specifically created with a focus on a specific part of grammar? If so, what are they called, and where can I find them?
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Why we could say "I did it my way"? [closed]
I guess we usually say "I did it in this way", but I can find such below:
1. "I did it my way";
2. "Everthing he achieved in life was earned the hard way".
so we can just omit the "in"?
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Quickly creating flashcards with sentences for conjugations in Spanish
In the book "Fluent Forever" (related blog post here), Wyner suggests using sentences to learn conjugations of verbs. For example, to learn the conjugation of "to be", for each form of the conjugation ...
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How can I learn to speak in SOV when my L1 is SVO?
I have been learning Hindi for almost 2 years, and my mother tongue is English. I find that I can understand things in Hindi that I read or hear, and I have a working vocabulary, but I struggle to ...
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Can English people understand my English even if I do not use English grammar, but just words, adverbs and context?
I would say English language is way too difficult because of its grammar.
For example, we have to conjugate many different tenses.
Other languages such as Vietnamese do not conjugate tenses.
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Should I correct my grammar mistakes or just ignore them while practice speaking?
While practice speaking a foreign language, I often find myself make a mistake during the speech and correct it immediately. The mistakes usually come from grammar, which I rarely do in writing. For ...
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What's the most complete book on English grammar?
I'm a foreigner who has never studied an English grammar book before and who now has the necessity to not only study the topic, but to know everything a good speaker should know. For this reason I ...
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What book(s) to read in order to learn letter-sound correspondence in English?
Someone advised me to go to the wikipedia page on "English Ortography" but in the references there are so many books that I don't know which to choose. In the same page there is also a list of letter-...
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Grammar book for Russian B2-C1 exam preparation
I would like to review Russian grammar for passing the entry exams at a Russian university. Can you please suggest books where I can find structured chapters on Russian grammar?
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Why learn English grammar first? Just gets in the way
I watch Thai kids learning grammar; they can diagram English sentences at age twelve but almost tremble with fear when addressed with "How are you?" (as often as not they say "I am 12 years old.")
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How do natives write without knowing grammar rules?
Grammar is boring, but how can native speakers write academically, without mistakes, without knowing the grammar rules they learnt in high school? Most natives learn grammar when they are in school, ...
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Does memorizing French verb conjugations with the sound of English characters have negative impact in the future?
I'm struggling to memorize the verb conjugation in French as different conjugations are pronounced the same but the characters are different. For example, I tend to write the following sentence:
Nous ...
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Question about Macedonian Grammar
I'm trying to learn Macedonian and one if the resources out there was paraphrased as saying the following about the Macedonian language:
Belamaric-Wilsey says that the majority of Macedonian-...
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What are the characteristics of the Macedonian language in this quote referring to? [closed]
I'm trying to learn Macedonian and one if the resources out there was paraphrased as saying the following about the Macedonian language:
Belamaric-Wilsey says that the majority of Macedonian-...
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Grammar books with exercises and answer key for autonomous study of Italian
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Italian that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Italian, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in ...
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Grammar books with exercises and answer key for autonomous study of Dutch
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Dutch that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Dutch, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in Spanish (...
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English grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study (A2 - B2)
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for English (as a second/foreign language) that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in English, i.e. all grammar rules ...
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French grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study (A2 - B2)
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for French that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in French, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in French ...
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German grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for German that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in German, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in German ...
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Spanish grammar books with exercises and answer key for self study
I am looking for a grammar book or series of grammar books for Spanish that match the following criteria:
the book or books must be in Spanish, i.e. all grammar rules and instructions must be in ...
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