5/13/2023 0 Comments The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson![]() Of course he doesn't explain why grammarians say they are a noun and a verb, cause he's got no idea. Quotation: "A noun is a noun and a verb is a verb because grammarians say they are" wow. ![]() He doesn't understand the difference between verbs and nouns, and the role they play in sentences. Bill Bryson has absolutely no knowledge about grammar and acts with an authoritative voice,disregarding very basic concepts,like what present tense is, what it is used for, the difference between present tense and bare infinitive, or between present tense and future tense for the same matter. But i just got to the chapter about grammar and I just want to throw the book out of the window. ![]() I liked the part about how the English language got this way, spelling, etymology, history, dialects. ![]()
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