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I had so much trouble with English grammar until I took Latin, then it all clicked and made sense. I say this as a native English speaker.
by cwmma 4y ago
I had so much trouble with English grammar until I took Latin, then it all clicked and made sense.
I say this as a native English speaker.
- fullmoon 4y agoI’ve only be learning for a year or so — will the mapping of tenses from Latin to English ever make sense?
- cwmma 4y agoI've never had much of a problem with that, Latin tenses have the perfect vs imperfect which maps pretty well to the ING ending in English and then past/present/future which maps well One issue is that sometimes what's easy to say on Latin is a bit of a mouthful to say in English in a literal translation. But that's more of a, well you wouldn't express that thought the same way in English.
- leephillips 4y agoInteresting comment. Do you mean trouble with using English correctly, or trouble with grammatical analysis or terminology?
- cwmma 4y agoMainly grammatical analysis, but that helps some more pedantic parts of very formal English.