@ehBeth,
Quote:Do you think "English native speakers" have a better understanding of the language than people who have it as a second/third/fourth/fifth tongue?
The Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English relates how native speakers have quite a poor understanding of how the language works and those that were brought up in the Strunk & White age, that's pretty much everyone alive today, is even worse.
Some seem to be able to set aside the old falsehoods they were taught in school, all too many can't.