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slow reader Mon Jan 2 22:46:34 2017 No.8919223 [Reply] [Original]

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?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:48:51 2017 No.8919227 File: 42 KB, 640x469, c48.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] slut posting is not /lit/ related sage

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:50:52 2017 No.8919230 >>8919223 >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!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:55:42 2017 No.8919246 Trust me, you probably know English better than most native speakers.

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Anonymous Mon Jan 2 22:56:47 2017 No.8919249

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

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:00:27 2017 No.8919260 >>8919223 I'd guess most published writers have never heard of a non-restricive appositive is. This is linguistics stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:07:00 2017 No.8919277 >>8919260 Translation: It doesn't fucking matter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 2 23:18:01 2017 No.8919316 >>8919223 Unless it interferes with your ability to understand a sentence, I wouldn't sweat it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:17:11 2017 No.8919512 holy shit man, just read the fucking book and quit being a spaz

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:20:09 2017 No.8919518 >>8919223 I would enjoy this image of a book more if there weren't also a woman in it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:22:06 2017 No.8919521 >>8919223 Sauce?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:25:52 2017 No.8919527 File: 624 KB, 722x525, 1461801067416.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8919223 I have an intuitive understanding of English grammar. Technical terms and their formalities are unnecessary.

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Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:28:29 2017 No.8919531

>>8919223
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.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 00:31:51 2017 No.8919538 >>8919227 you realise that's sophie, our qt pornographic Russian reading French muse?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 10:57:12 2017 No.8920933 >>8919227 >8ree >slut Shun the nonbliever

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 10:59:04 2017 No.8920941 >>8919521 8ree beebunny on tumblr

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 11:00:16 2017 No.8920946 hey gibe me youe numbers honey ill give you a dicking youll wont forget

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 11:13:19 2017 No.8920998 >>8919538 who's sophie? I want more of her

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:11:17 2017 No.8921210 >>8920998 there are pictures of her buttonhole online

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:13:00 2017 No.8921215 >>8921210 post her feet

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:33:06 2017 No.8921271 File: 1.25 MB, 2232x2336, 14125.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8919538 >>8920933 Its this girl. Not sure what her name is.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:38:41 2017 No.8921293 >>8921271 see >>8921215

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:45:18 2017 No.8921319 >>8920998 see >>8920941

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:45:43 2017 No.8921322 >>8921293 She has a bunch. Look up Amadora 4chan

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:55:52 2017 No.8921380 >>8921322 what the fuck is amadora 4chan?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 12:57:36 2017 No.8921391 >>8921380 she doesn't come up if you just type amadora but I think that is a name she goes by or something.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:09:26 2017 No.8921441 >>8921391 amadora means amateur (female) in monkeyspeak

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:10:45 2017 No.8921451 whatever happened to oxford girl?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:11:42 2017 No.8921456 >>8921451 who/?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:17:33 2017 No.8921478 >>8921271 >cross Good Christian girl

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:19:53 2017 No.8921489 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.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:23:15 2017 No.8921504 File: 398 KB, 485x427, 1241251.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8921478 god bless her

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:26:23 2017 No.8921517 >>8921504 link me her pics. I need them, for theological research.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:31:13 2017 No.8921549 >>8921517 http://4archive.org/board/b/thread/646890316

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:37:49 2017 No.8921582 >>8921549 don't let butterfly see these though

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:43:30 2017 No.8921615 >>8921489 Just because you use pretentious words like predicament doesn't mean your English is 'fantastic'.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:47:19 2017 No.8921638 >>8921615 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?

>>	slow reader Tue Jan 3 13:51:51 2017 No.8921647 File: 79 KB, 988x820, GodelB1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8921615 His use of 'predicament' seemed appropriate; it wasn't at all pretentious. Even then, what's wrong with using pretentious words?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:54:20 2017 No.8921655 >>8921647 because anti-intellectualism is cool

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 13:55:46 2017 No.8921661 >>8921615 my english are bestest than you're get fucking rekt kid

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 14:33:58 2017 No.8921796 >>8921615 '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?

>>	slow reader Tue Jan 3 14:42:19 2017 No.8921827 >>8921796 I'm not the guy you're asking, but I'd like to see.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 14:44:13 2017 No.8921838 >>8921504 >>8921549 I'd fuck her like a beast

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 16:11:40 2017 No.8922206 what book is that

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 18:23:41 2017 No.8922822 >>8919521 8ree

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 19:33:49 2017 No.8923112 >>8919227 first post best post

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 19:49:41 2017 No.8923209 >>8919223 id jizz in her book then rub it in her face if you know what i mean

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 21:54:05 2017 No.8923724 >>8923209 metaphorically?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 21:55:28 2017 No.8923733 >>8923724 euphemistically actually

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 22:30:11 2017 No.8923864 >>8921549 Thank you based anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 3 22:49:54 2017 No.8923927 >>8919227 that particular picture is /lit/ culture

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 02:01:44 2017 No.8924547 Learn by context

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 02:09:01 2017 No.8924570 >Should I feel bad for No Feeling bad is a spook Never feel bad for anything

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 02:13:55 2017 No.8924580 >>8924570 wouldn't it be wiser to use feeling bad as a guide for what we want?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 02:15:43 2017 No.8924588 >>8919223 Few adults could name the many muscles and bones of the leg, knee, ankle, and foot - much less explain their interactions - yet, children walk.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 02:18:33 2017 No.8924597 >>8924588 I feel like that is a false equivalence

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Anonymous Wed Jan 4 02:49:53 2017 No.8924667

>>8924597
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?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 03:34:54 2017 No.8924748 File: 484 KB, 525x389, qwe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8919277 deep

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 09:22:26 2017 No.8925590 File: 19 KB, 640x400, 1482021736267.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8921451 >>8921478 >>8920998 >>8921210 >>8921215 >>8921322 >>8921504 >>8921517

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!Srz2lnO/STC Wed Jan 4 09:41:10 2017 No.8925640 File: 154 KB, 800x600, amadora-34.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8925590 That's what those with pussies are called. Problem?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 13:40:53 2017 No.8926803 >>8925590 >he hasn't seen the explicits yet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 4 13:42:37 2017 No.8926824 File: 10 KB, 225x263, butler_tea.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8925640 Yes, I do have a problem with that actually.