Confused said:If I was to do some exercises like identifying the main subject, prepositional phrase, subject-verb agreements, modifiers, transitive/intransitive verbs and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I haven't came across yet, I would get confused easily, and especially in the longer sentences. It's frustrating
Nope; it's the conversation part that kills us the non-native speakers :) In fact, some people (like my teacher at the prep school) claim that non-native people pay more attention to the grammar making their writing better than some of the native speakers.cristo said:
Phred101.2 said:
You just reminded me of my high school French classes. We used to watch Sesame Street and other kids shows in French. It helped a lot. Of course, I did feel pretty silly at the time.Zenparticle said:
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