English Language Learners

@CopperKettle For linguists, the Latin alphabet is that universal script

> It is clear from the data presented in §§9.8.1-3 that the relation between should and shall and between might and may is significantly less sytematic than that between could and can or would and will. While could and would are unquestionably the preterite counterparts of present tense can and will respectively, the status of should and might as preterite forms is far less clear-cut. (CGEL p.202)

The noun copywriting is a deverbal noun writing with the noun copy incorporated

@Hanaa For example, if you follow the steps I've outlined, one of the first chapters you should come across is Swain's highly influential The output hypothesis and beyond: Mediating acquisition through collaborative dialogue

Happy New Year!

I know I've linked to this plenty of times before, but have you read AAVE is not SE with mistakes?

→　①　②　③　④　⑤　⑥　⑦　⑧　⑨　⑩　←　Circled numerals

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But it could also mean "I'm not getting what you're saying" (in terms of understanding), I suppose

What's "a broken sleep"? I don't know.

But mostly in OE things were neater: third person pronouns all had h at the beginning :-)

I should bold stuff more often. When I bold stuff, people tend to star it.

In The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, it's referred to as the oblique genitive construction

I got a hat too today. I tried to adjust it to my avatar but it didn't look cool enough.

Star wall looks different today.

"A member of the public" is only one person

Me too!

CGEL (p.307-8) characterizes a 'middle' intransitive as having passive-like semantics (the causer is not the subject, but someone else), but with the inability to insert a by-phrase containing the causer. So, The bill passed but not *The bill passed by the senate. On the other hand, The bill passed by unanimous consent is okay because the by-phrase here doesn't indicate a causer

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> Each modal can have two different types of meaning, which can be labeled intrinsic and extrinsic (also referred to as 'deontic' and 'epistemic' meanings). Intrinsic modality refers to actions and events that humans (or other agents) directly control: meanings relating to permission, obligation, or volition (or intention). Extrinsic modality refers to the logical status of events or states, usually relating to assessments of likelihood: possibility, necessity, or prediction.

> Every, but not each, permits modification

An activity verb like sew in the simple present could be: a simple present description, a statement of willingness or capability, a habitual description, an iterative description, ...

The adjective and enough get pushed past the nominal head because enough can't take a to-infinitival complement in attributive position

This sort of sentence is generally frowned upon by the sort of people who do grammar-related frowning

A planarian is a flatworm.

Trolling for Skulpas.

Or, in short: You need to invert the subject and auxiliary unless the interrogative phrase is in subject position, so if you don't have an auxiliary already, add the dummy auxiliary do

> Intermediate between the noun and the NP we recognise a category of nominals:

> A Dictionary of Comicbook Words on Historical Principles

Ain't Endangered!　　←　　This is a headline. A snail headline.

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Must . . . destroy . . . comma

@DamkerngT. To me it sounds like one of those phrases you stick into a formulaic junior high school essay because you have to have one at the beginning of each paragraph

Eleventeen is 21, eleventy is 110, twelfty is 120

Perhaps an International Man of Mystery.