Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by amaccuish on Friday April 13, 2018 @07:08AM
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So verb forms are not the only part of grammar. In these examples you've covered sequences of tenses, mood, word order, and it could be argued aspect. Ask someone to point out the parts of speech and they'd be able to point out the pronoun and verb, that's usually it.
Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by jknightco on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:54AM
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He runs to the store.
I suggest that he run to the store.
Even verb morphology is a bit more complex than you've called out here.
Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by gordonguthrie on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:52AM
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A 10 word sentence has 10! possible word orders of which only 1 is correct - that is grammer
Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by umanwizard on Friday April 13, 2018 @12:28AM
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You seem to think that "verb morphology" is all there is to "grammar".
Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by selectodude on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:39PM
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Also everything in English has dozens and dozens of exceptions that you just need to memorize.
Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by pbhjpbhj on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:28AM
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A good way to teach that for native users might be to teach why that is the case and leave the specifics to happenstance.
Re:Duolingo Suddenly Has Over Twice as Much Language Learnin...
by umanwizard on Friday April 13, 2018 @09:05AM
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This isn't unique to English.
I ran, she ran, he ran, they ran, we ran, y'all ran.
I run, she runs, he runs, they run, we run, y'all run.
I'll run, she'll run, he'll run, they'll run, we'll run, y'all'll run.
I thought I'd run, he thought he'd run, they thought they'd run.
We'll have wished we ran, they'll have wished they ran, he'll have wished he ran.
What exactly do you want to teach here? The only weirdness to the rule is that he and she runs with an "s", everything else is the same.
I love you. You love me. They love him. He loves them.
I want you. You want me. They want him. He wants them.
In Russian the above is far different because the word order can be switched for emphasis.
The only thing in English worth teaching is "I have" vs "I am" and almost every language has that same problem as well (Je suis vs J'ai in French).
The hard part with English is that our spelling makes zero sense, unlike Russian or French. The grammar is really quite straightforward.