There are two basic criteria for the recognition and expression of things (nouns) and actions (verbs) in English: unmarked/marked and obligatory/non-obligatory. When English grammar is discussed, it ...
I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...
The meaning of "negation (~nai)" and which "container (position)" in a sentence it is assigned to. The rules (system) for this placement are opposite in English and Japanese. In short, English is good ...