Should I feel bad for forgetting basic grammar rules that I've learned in grade school?
At times, I have difficulty with differentiating between simple parts of speech, like: predicates (simple, complete, compound, nominative, adjective, etc.), direct and indirect objects, what a prepositional phrase is, appositives, subject complements, etc.
English is not my mother tongue, however, I do have a damn good grasp of the language, and of the grammar. It's just when I come across some technical terms, I draw blanks, then shamefully look up the definitions of said terms. I start to question what I really know about English. Does anybody feel the same?
How useful is it really, to have the definitions of what a fucking correlative conjunction is, or to be able to tell the difference between restrictive and non-restrictive appositives?
>then shamefully look up the definitions of said terms Looking up the definition of a term? OH! How did you do it? I would have died of embarrassment. How mortifying! The humanity!
Tyler Anderson
Trust me, you probably know English better than most native speakers.
Angel Jones
Didn't even know what a non-restrictive appositive was until now, and I'm an American (that goes without saying, amirite). There are many more in the same boat as you, just google the concept when you get confused, chances are your peers know less about these terms
Nicholas Mitchell
I'd guess most published writers have never heard of a non-restricive appositive is.
This is linguistics stuff.
Ryder Hernandez
Translation: It doesn't fucking matter.
Sebastian Ross
Unless it interferes with your ability to understand a sentence, I wouldn't sweat it
Isaac Brown
holy shit man, just read the fucking book and quit being a spaz
Ian Williams
I would enjoy this image of a book more if there weren't also a woman in it
Jace Russell
Sauce?
Julian King
I have an intuitive understanding of English grammar. Technical terms and their formalities are unnecessary.
Mason Roberts
English is my daily language and I still do that. I can think of the terms no problem in my native tongue but sometimes I need to think about German grammar to remember the English word for something (dative case is usually the one this happens with because I don't think they even teach native speakers that) I revise my very old grammar book from school (which also has handy lists of collective nouns etc) and look up things I don't understand still too, OP, but I wouldn't worry too much about it because most native speakers seem to never learn these things until their second language. You're probably doing better than most natives.
Caleb Butler
you realise that's sophie, our qt pornographic Russian reading French muse?
Noah Reyes
>8ree >slut Shun the nonbliever
Josiah Moore
8ree beebunny on tumblr
Bentley Green
hey gibe me youe numbers honey ill give you a dicking youll wont forget
Lucas Russell
who's sophie? I want more of her
Ryan Robinson
there are pictures of her buttonhole online
Joseph Kelly
post her feet
Robert Taylor
Its this girl. Not sure what her name is.
Landon Johnson
see
Owen Collins
see
Robert Rivera
She has a bunch. Look up Amadora Veeky Forums
Carter Campbell
what the fuck is amadora Veeky Forums?
Brayden Gonzalez
she doesn't come up if you just type amadora but I think that is a name she goes by or something.
Nathaniel Diaz
amadora means amateur (female) in monkeyspeak
Colton Mitchell
whatever happened to oxford girl?
Benjamin Cruz
who/?
Adrian Perez
>cross Good Christian girl
Jacob Perez
I'm also a non-native speaker with fantastic English, I face the same predicament as you. I just go on intuition, I can tell when I've made a mistake most of the time.
John Ward
god bless her
Julian Sanders
link me her pics. I need them, for theological research.
Just because you use pretentious words like predicament doesn't mean your English is 'fantastic'.
Asher Hall
Sounds like he can speak fluently to me. Thats fantastic enough. What the fuck does pretentious even mean, do you want us all to talk like 3rd graders?
Michael Russell
His use of 'predicament' seemed appropriate; it wasn't at all pretentious. Even then, what's wrong with using pretentious words?
Xavier Butler
because anti-intellectualism is cool
Kayden Gonzalez
my english are bestest than you're get fucking rekt kid
Angel Adams
'Predicament' is hardly a pretentious word. I don't know that many pretentious words.
Do you want me to post a sample of my writing?
Charles Gray
I'm not the guy you're asking, but I'd like to see.
Lincoln Ramirez
I'd fuck her like a beast
Grayson Adams
what book is that
Jose Roberts
8ree
Carter Hernandez
first post best post
Adam Bennett
id jizz in her book then rub it in her face if you know what i mean
Luis Miller
metaphorically?
Ian Barnes
euphemistically actually
Jace Collins
Thank you based user
Julian Hughes
that particular picture is Veeky Forums culture
Austin Sanders
Learn by context
Ethan King
>Should I feel bad for No Feeling bad is a spook Never feel bad for anything
Charles Nguyen
wouldn't it be wiser to use feeling bad as a guide for what we want?
Robert Morgan
Few adults could name the many muscles and bones of the leg, knee, ankle, and foot - much less explain their interactions - yet, children walk.
Dylan Ortiz
I feel like that is a false equivalence
Luis Baker
Yeah, almost like it's not intended as a literal comparison, but as some kind of symbolic representation of how language is a function of human development, and we need not necessarily be able to name and describe everything about it to be able to effectively use it... totally gay, right?
Elijah King
deep
Julian Hernandez
...
Wyatt James
That's what those with pussies are called. Problem?