Sat 4 Aug, 2012 02:27 am - No, you are wrong. Native speakers tend to be quite bad at explaining grammar. I have seen it for long time. They always say it's idiom even though it is grammar and Korean grammar teachers... (view)
Fri 3 Aug, 2012 05:25 am - yeah.. I thought so. But to those -including me-who are not a native speaker, it's very confusing.. can you explain it in terms of grammar? I believe it surely can be explained grammatically., (view)
Fri 3 Aug, 2012 02:04 am - Lix explained, "I was not as great of a reader as everybody else in the class was...
I can understand the meaning of the sentence. But, I can't understand the grammar of it. If you... (view)
Sat 14 Jul, 2012 05:16 am - Here is a sentence.
This insight into mystery of life, coupled though it 'be' with fear, has also give rise to religion.... (view)
Thu 5 Jul, 2012 10:52 am - Hi ^^ Thanks for answering. But you seem not to understand what I meant.
What I am asking is that the sentence itself ; 'A writer is to use semicolons.'
A writer is to use semicolons.... (view)
Thu 5 Jul, 2012 06:10 am - Thanks for answering! What I don't understand is the sentence per se.
Suppose there is a sentence, 'a writer is to use semicolons'
And I don't know what this sentece means. (view)
Wed 4 Jul, 2012 03:57 pm - http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/semicolons-a-love-story/?ref=opinion
I don't understand this sentence for two reasons.
First of all, why does the author use past tense... (view)