[vil]

Hi oregeezer,

While there is life there is hope. I put my hope in the future, to the coming that memorable day, when I could say like you, "I don't have any trouble with the gerund and the participle, as well as with the English language as whole."I'm 10 years short of that cherish day.

Thank you for your tense and clear explanation.

Thank you also for your practical advise in proverb form:"to leave the esoteric knowledge out of account and to turn my attention to the sense."

If I have gotten properly your idea, you speak to me about the common sense, as a philosophical notion.

I know there are said to be basically three different learning styles: auditory/verbal, visual and kinetic/tactile. Everyone of the teachers uses a combination of all three, but usually have one preference method that works best for them. Your recommendation sounds "one have to try to incorporate all three mentioned above methods as much as possible, than when a student have a question, to answer it on the specific style that make the most sense of them.

I know "common sense" = "sound judgment not based on specialized knowledges; native good judgment; common natural understanding.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing thing as they ought to be.

There are no two ways about the concept, that the common sense is what people in common would agree,that which they "sense" in common is their common natural understanding. Probably, you have used this phrase to refer to belief or propositions that would in most people's experience be prudent an of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what is believed to be knowledge hold by people "in common", so: the knowledge and experience most people have, or are believed to have by the person using the term.

All that sounds a little philosophical and baffling, but have a big practical application.

That is the reason that I am a member the present forum.

Thank you for your attention and patience with me.

Regards.

V.