Resources for native English speaker

[ben731]

Hello. I'm a native English speaker interested in learning another language. The issue I'm running into is that I need to really brush up on the formal aspect of English, such as third person singular, third person plural, nominative, possessive, verb agreement, things of the sort. Because in the language course I'm studying, it's assumed one already knows all of these things, and when I try to search for anything, all that keeps coming up are learning English for non-native speakers that starts from the absolute beginning and with the very basics. Basically, what I'm interested in is kind of a crash course in the formal aspects of the language for an already native speaker. If anyone would be able to recommend anything, that would be great! Thanks so much!

 

[teechar]

Hello Ben, and welcome to the forum.

Have you looked at the resources we have on this site?

English Grammar - UsingEnglish.com

www.usingenglish.com

Please bear in mind that the syntax of the language you intend to learn might be significantly different from that of English.

Please also note that I have moved your thread to our General Language Discussions section.

 

[ben731]

Hello Ben, and welcome to the forum.

Have you looked at the resources we have on this site?

English Grammar - UsingEnglish.com

www.usingenglish.com

Please bear in mind that the syntax of the language you intend to learn might be significantly different from that of English.

Please also note that I have moved your thread to our General Language Discussions section.

Thank you for the reply, and for the link. I wasn't even aware that existed. I just thought it was a forum website. That seems like it should be a great place for me to start. Thanks so much!

 

[emsr2d2]

When I started learning German, I realized how little formal English grammar actually I knew. Verb agreement and case terminology suddenly mattered in a way school never prepared me for. What worked best was looking at resources aimed at linguistics students rather than ESL, for example Huddleston & Pullum’s A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar, which lays everything out clearly without starting from the ABCs.

As a native English speaker, please make sure your written English is correct on the forum. We have enough non-native speakers failing to capitalise the first person singular pronoun "I", without the native speakers joining in!

I suspect your experience is shared by many native English speakers who didn't study grammar at all as children. I also suspect that that's the vast majority of native speakers.

 

[PeterCW]

As a native English speaker, please make sure your written English is correct on the forum. We have enough non-native speakers failing to capitalise the first person singular pronoun "I", without the native speakers joining in!

I suspect your experience is shared by many native English speakers who didn't study grammar at all as children. I also suspect that that's the vast majority of native speakers.

My phone will automatically capitalise "I" but if i (sic) correct certain typos it stays in lower case. The trouble is that we see what we meant to write when we proof read our own work.

As far as I can remember after 60+ years my English language education was pretty basic. Anything complex came from studying French and Latin.