Should I feel bad for forgetting basic grammar rules that I've learned in grade school?

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?

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sage

>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!

Trust me, you probably know English better than most native speakers.

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

I'd guess most published writers have never heard of a non-restricive appositive is.

This is linguistics stuff.

Translation: It doesn't fucking matter.

Unless it interferes with your ability to understand a sentence, I wouldn't sweat it

holy shit man, just read the fucking book and quit being a spaz

I would enjoy this image of a book more if there weren't also a woman in it

Sauce?

I have an intuitive understanding of English grammar. Technical terms and their formalities are unnecessary.

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.

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>8ree
>slut
Shun the nonbliever

8ree
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who's sophie? I want more of her

there are pictures of her buttonhole online

post her feet

Its this girl. Not sure what her name is.

see

see

She has a bunch. Look up Amadora Veeky Forums

what the fuck is amadora Veeky Forums?

she doesn't come up if you just type amadora but I think that is a name she goes by or something.

amadora means amateur (female) in monkeyspeak

whatever happened to oxford girl?

who/?

>cross
Good Christian girl

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.

god bless her

link me her pics. I need them, for theological research.

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don't let butterfly see these though

Just because you use pretentious words like predicament doesn't mean your English is 'fantastic'.

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?

His use of 'predicament' seemed appropriate; it wasn't at all pretentious. Even then, what's wrong with using pretentious words?

because anti-intellectualism is cool

my english are bestest than you're
get fucking rekt kid

'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?

I'm not the guy you're asking, but I'd like to see.

I'd fuck her like a beast

what book is that

8ree

first post best post

id jizz in her book then rub it in her face if you know what i mean

metaphorically?

euphemistically actually

Thank you based user

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>Should I feel bad for
No
Feeling bad is a spook
Never feel bad for anything

wouldn't it be wiser to use feeling bad as a guide for what we want?

Few adults could name the many muscles and bones of the leg, knee, ankle, and foot - much less explain their interactions - yet, children walk.

I feel like that is a false equivalence

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?

deep

...

That's what those with pussies are called. Problem?

>he hasn't seen the explicits yet

Yes, I do have a problem with that actually.