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All the stuff about linguistic semantics should be taken out and put into a separate article. Furthermore, the notion that a predicate describes what may be true of the subject is a definition fraught with cultural and political minefields that are completely unnecessary to understanding English grammar.
An overview of English grammar, with links to the more detailed articles. This will be the meat of the page. A concise history of English grammar (also linked to a longer parent article). In my view, things got bogged down, in part, because we were trying to work from the bottom up. I would like to suggest that we do the opposite: A.
A non-lexical backchannel is a vocalized sound that has little or no referential meaning but still verbalizes the listener's attention, and that frequently co-occurs with gestures. In English, sounds like uh-huh and hmm serve this role. Non-lexical backchannels generally come from a limited set of sounds not otherwise widely used in content ...
I think that c'est is a contraction of ce + est. Take the phrase that starts a question 'est-ce que'. If this interrogative phrase is inverted back into "sentence-form", it is 'c'est que'. Of course, if 'est-ce que' is translated into English, it would not make any sense. --Mayfare 01:34, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
When we speak of English as a foreign language (EFL), we are referring to the role of English for learners in a country where English is not spoken by the majority (what Braj Kachru calls the expanding circle). English as a second language (ESL) refers to the role of English for learners in an English-speaking country, i.e. usually immigrants ...
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
A woman receiving a condescending email on her phone. Nothing can squash your confidence quite like someone talking down to you. "When someone talks down to you, they are communicating about their ...
In linguistics, speech or indirect discourse is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.