Learning Grammar

Conjugating verbs is the bane of every schoolchild's life. And for adult language learners, it is nit much fun either. Learning tables and tables of verb endings is really the only way to do it when ...

A curious anomaly of foreign language for most English speakers is gender. Gender is the concept that all nouns can be masculine, feminine or neuter. This means that the pronoun each word is given ...

Redundancy in language is a fairly complicated concept, which may sound like a negative facet of language. But although sometimes it can be it does not necessarily follow that all aspects of ...

All languages have patterns and all languages have regular and irregular patterns. That is to say that a certain type of word, be it noun, verb, adjective, will change and behave in a certain way. ...

Shape shifting, in language terms, has nothing to do with metamorphosing oneself into a different shape, as it would do in science fiction movies. But it is an interesting concept and one that any ...

Singular and plurals is an important facet of grammar when a person learns a new language. If you are an English speaker, the vast majority of nouns are turned into a plural by simply adding an s. ...

Tenses are an aspect of language that you will start to learn about when you have mastered the basic skills required in that language. However, without knowing it, you will have been using a tense ...

Word agreement is one of the many reasons that learning a new language is nowhere near as simple as translating all of the words you need than outing them on paper. Because of word agreement, some ...

Word order is a tricky thing to get your head round for a beginner in language learning. Very few languages have the same word order, so people learning a new language will quickly find that ...