contentbotB to Cool GuidesEnglish · 1 month agoA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itimagemessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up165arrow-down1imageA cool guide pay attention to your grammari.redd.itcontentbotB to Cool GuidesEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareDeconceptualist@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoI don’t know if there is a rule. This one might just be an example of English being needlessly confusing.
minus-squarecorsicanguppylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoIF you can do that-vs-who/m, then you can do this.
minus-squareDeconceptualist@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month agoNo, I think I’ve got a good handle on that. Studying German and learning Akkusativ vs Dativ really helped. I think the challenge here involves a few things: It’s hard to remember irregular verbs unless they’re super common. The vowel shifts on the right side: present-tense Lie and Lying vs past Lay and Lain. Some of the forms on the right are very similar sounding to ones on the left, plus Lay is confusingly used in two rather different situations.
I don’t know if there is a rule. This one might just be an example of English being needlessly confusing.
IF you can do that-vs-who/m, then you can do this.
No, I think I’ve got a good handle on that. Studying German and learning Akkusativ vs Dativ really helped.
I think the challenge here involves a few things: