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If you are going to do things properly you serve a tray with sugar cubes and tongs, cold milk in a jug, tea in a pot covered with a tea cosy, and a pot of hot water, which can be used to adjust the strength and also is added to the teapot as it empties so the tea doesn't stew. Serve tea to others a...

I would never say that sentence without the "here."

I concur and was born and have lived 92.3% of my life in the U.S.

Come nex' yar, dats 32 yars I bin workin' f'dat foo. Hey HEY!!!

Um...it's not necessarily wrong, it's just not a prescribed construction of "standard" English. :shock: If you are interested in standard English, then oceanbreez's recommendation is the one you want; if, by chance, you are interested in how to construct this in hip-hop English, then holla at me, HE...

That's great! Thanks for clearing that up
I used the sentence to demonstrate a different, yet, not entirely un-related point.

Finished am I. This approaches non-grammaticality. I am finished. This is quite grammatical, although it might not make much sense, to you at least. Same goes for the "very" sentence, IMO. The point is that sentences can be grammatical without making much "sense." I'll use Chomsky's famous sentence...

I like Juan's analysis. Anuradha says: We might be better off wihout it. I say: Ah yes, this solution will work, it's brilliant! (seriously, I like it a lot); however, native speakers use "their" in this context quite a bit; therefore, one will run the risk of sounding NON-NATIVE!!! :shock: :shock: ...

Ok, let me see if I got this straight:

Portugal is countable, but food is not.

Right!


A team can be thought of as a single entity or a group of individuals, but food cannot.

Right!

A team can be thought of as a single entity or a group of individuals. So can food! The food are good. The beans, rice and beer! The food are good! Maybe that's because we see cheating, diving and whinging as done by individuals, or groups of individuals rather than the team as a whole. What is thi...

Portugal play well.

France are winning.

Elaboration?

I recently heard on PBS that Buckaroo is the anglicacized version of Vaquero.

Hello, Normally, the third person singular "s" is one of the last morphemes to be acquired (although it is surely not the last to be learnt!); so I would advise one not to stress too much, for such a thing will work itself out with time :? By the way, many a linguist predict that this "s" will disap...

For hot weather, I would do anything; I would move to ________.

Because of the hot weather, I shat myself.

Keeping the newbie happy, I must respond that I use pro-american mostly as an adjective and sometime as a noun I hope that's not too political

Hey wait, I am a newbie too! Should I introduce myself?

Sara, It seems that you have it! Yes, maybe you are freaking out, deep breath 8) You said that it "gets you to try and describe typology features of other languages," but that is exactly what you have done in 1-4! :-) As far as where you "are supposed to find typology feature;" this info should be i...