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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-01-30 06:43 pm

[ SECRET POST #2585 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2585 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Monster High]


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[Bryan Fuller, John Green]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Pretty Little Liars]


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06.
[Breaking Bad]


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[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]


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[Reign]


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[Leviathan: the last day of the decade]


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[Sherlock Holmes]


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[Steam]


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tabaqui: (Default)

Re: Past perfect (ESL here)

[personal profile] tabaqui 2014-01-31 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, i read through all the things. Eh. I hated all this stuff in school - no clue what a past perfect is or a dangling participle. Didn't seem to make a difference to my writing, though - it's generally correct. Lucky me.

Re: Past perfect (ESL here)

[personal profile] herpymcderp 2014-01-31 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
That's the problem with English lol... so many grammar rules that are irregular, subject to change, and largely intuitive. As native speakers we are lucky in that we can usually intuit them correctly and don't need to know the names of parts of speech in order to use them.

For a non-native speaker trying to acquire fluency (and this is especially true of fluent writing) it's hugely daunting and does require a knowledge of terms and general rules for grammar usage. Almost all of the studying I did for my old job was trying to memorize what the proper terms for all that intuitive grammar actually were.
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Re: Past perfect (ESL here)

[personal profile] tabaqui 2014-01-31 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Sitting in English class while the teacher went over (and over and over) the parts of speech was so frustrating for me. I never *got* it. Asked to point out a noun or a verb, i was fine. An adverb, i'd have to think. Anything else? Forget it, i was lost. I dunno why.

I guess English is confusing, but people talking about Russian grammar seems incredibly confusing to me, so i suppose it's all a matter of what you're used to.