Language facts
What we know about language consciously and subconsciously.
What we know about language consciously and subconsciously.
how to form question tags
despite + ing
stop doing vs. stop to do
third cond => regret
(central) modal verbs don’t take to
hardly and fast are irregular adverbs
what are phrasal verbs and delexical verbs
what is the most frequent sound in English? schwa
nouns can be countable and/or uncountable
some with pos and any with neg
comparative and superlative with three syllable adjectives
never use a preposition to end a sentence with (last)
The fact that you can even think about these questions is evidence that we have been convinced of the need for metalanguage.
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Context often determines what is right or wrong i.e. appropriate