Hi… My name is Tsering and I have been learning grammar for many days. I am having many problems with it and two specific problems are word/phrase/clause order in a sentence, and saying 1 sentence in 2 different ways and being grammatically correct at the same time.
Ex: Arguments for the SMS are typically invoked in settings involving considerable uncertainty and potentially irreversible loses.
Why can’t you say: Arguments are for the SMS typically invoked in settings involving considerable uncertainty and potentially irreversible loses.
or
Typically invoked are arguments for the SMS in settings involving considerable uncertainty and potentially irreversible loses.
I know the sentences sound weird but can you guys tell why Why in a strictly grammatical sense.
Ex: He could not help but see that.
He could not help seeing that.
How can you say these sentences in two ways yet they are both grammatically correct.
Last Ex: I desperately want to gain flexibility.
I desperately want to be flexible.
Both “gain and be” are verbs so why is "gain"followed by noun “flexibility” and “be” by adjective flexible.
-Can you also say “flexibility is what I want to gain desperately.”
Question about saying sentence in millions of different ways always confuses me like how can they be all grammatically correct. When can you write a sentence and when can you not.
Hi,
I think for your first example, we must consider the first phrase as a subject:
They are typically invoked in settings involving considerable uncertainty and potentially irreversible loses.
We are talking about something which the whole sentence is about. So, it must be the subject of the sentence. And I think just your first sentence is correct, isn’t it?
However, I would like to hear from Alan, or Torsten.
Hi Lama. I think your question must be left to your english teacher. I mean the teacher from your country and who speaks your language. After hearing you said that you’d learnt english grammar for SOME DAYS, I know that you’re now a beginner. There are many new terms in english must be explained to you in your language by your teacher himself. I mean the equivalent terms. When I started to learn english, my teacher did so. They’re basic rules from which I can build my english knowledge myself better. Sometimes, there are something native teachers can’t teach you better than your teachers. That’s why we always learn philology before other subjects and mother tongue before other languages.
I don’t think Lama is that much of a beginner, BS. He’d never have been able to construct that post if he hadn’t been learning for more than ‘some days’. I think that was just an incorrect choice of phrase.
It’s grammactical, Tsering. There are always grammactical rules in a certain language.
Go this way. “Gain”, like other transitive verbs, requires a noun, but not an adjective, to follow as an object. “Be” is a special verb that can be followed by a noun or an adjective. Some other verbs such as feel, sound, taste… that you might as well learn by heart also can be followed by adjectives…
Frankly, you make me come into a question why you have asked such a question. You know to ask “flexibility is what I want to gain desperately” which shows that you are not just “some days” learning English.
JLTS
Hi Blue Snow,
In my opinion, learning English with a native teacher in a full “English atmosphere” is best. Initially we just find it difficult because we have to manage to understand our teacher but it’s easier for us to really master English as a native speakers on our way.
Regards,
JLTS
Of course everyone wants to learn a language with native speakers but what will happen if we know nothing about it? When learning a new language or whatsoever, we need a basis. This basis helps us know how the language works and from which we will have targets to reach. Notice that every foreign language center has native speakers on behalf of tutors.
Ok, BS. That’s your opinion and I have mine.
I think if I could start to learn English from A in England or the US I would have been to Z and mastered English as native speakers.
Thanks anyway.
JLTS
If you had paid some more attention, you’d have found out that I had an account named Idiot. Just because I always see I’m too stupid to show off all my worst characteristics here. People usually try to hide those but I don’t. I want to be myself but no one else. When I say something, I may not an idiot but when I say nothing(just listen and mainly to hide my ignorance), then I’m a complete idiot. To JLTR, don’t worry. Pay some attention to IF I DIDN’T HAVE ANY VIETNAMESE FRIEND in his post.
Maybe you misunderstood my post. That hell was not for you but for your post. I didn’t scold you at all. You had used What the heck and then I suggested using hell. That meant I was helping you to look down on myself?!
Hi all of you guys,
It’s so funny. Don’t fly into a rage. No one is stupid at all. Do you think you can tell one is more stupid than another? Who is the smartest here? Come on! Keep smiling and be nice to anything and anyone arround you for the rest of your lives. You should know life is so short. Life and death stay just a slim curtain apart. I have just lost a friend by an accident at the construction site, who was a millionaire at the age of 30 or a bit over. He studied in Germany and came back to Vietnam to work. He was really a good man. He was so nice to everyone and never said funny things like you have been doing. Unfairly, God took him, a nice man, away so early.
I know my writing is very “Vietnamese”. But that’s the way we show our honesty and truthfulness.
I am an engineer but I love learning and sharing English very much. That’s why I sit here to practice English. If you just want to criticize one another, please do PM.
Take care,
JLTS
Dear Joseph,
I told that If I hadn’t!, but I have several friends from Vietnam whom they are more friendly and nice. Anyway, we all know that having fight is meaningless! It just makes us more aggressive, so I forgot it. LOL.
You certainly get on a lot of peoples nerves BS. Why don’t you just go where you are appreciated?