Regarding point 1b, the government has said no such thing. Societal norms determine what is acceptable and what is not, and in which situations, not the government!
I'm not a teacher, but I write for a living. Please don't ask me about 2nd conditionals, but I'm a safe bet for what reads well in (American) English.
I would like to give some examples of verb forms of Bengali language.(Because I feel(ing) very interested)
As I said most of the verbs have two parts. We only change the second part.
Suppose 'simple' is a noun , we will make it verbs adding a verb('do', it is the second part). ( proper example would be 'addition do' as 'simple' is an adjective)
So the verb will be "simple do" in Bengali but 'simplify' in English.
We also make verbs adding the verb 'do' with adjectives. For example, make something nice
= nice do.
Ha ha.. isn't it interesting?
We like our verb forms. So I think languages are really interesting and complicated systems of communicating with each other.![]()
Last edited by sumon.; 13-Feb-2012 at 15:23. Reason: proper example
Indeed, but Shakespeare was presenting an Irish character, (one who possibly spoke English as a foreign language) whose speech was non-standard in many ways, as we see in the rest of the speech, here
Context is always important; labelling is rarely important.
For an Irish person in the 17th century, English would have almost certainly been a foreign language.
Hmmm. There have been a lot of grammarians over the last three thousand years, including, to name but a tiny handful, Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax, Jacob Grimm, Otto Jespersen, Kamta Prasad Guru, Kātyāyana, Lancelot & Arnauld, Priscian, Randolph Quirk, Henry Sweet, Ali Taramakhi, not to mention Chomsky, Halliday, Quirk, ...
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Context is always important; labelling is rarely important.
Thank you to all. I never give up studying English.